firecrawl/pdf-inspector
Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.pdf-inspector Fast Rust library for PDF classification and text extraction. Detects whether a PDF is text-based or scanned, extracts text with position awareness, and converts to clean Markdown — all without OCR. Includes bindings for Python, Node.js, and browser WebAssembly. Built by Firecrawl to handle text-based PDFs locally in under 200...
Read full article →