Firecrawl Open-Sources pdf-inspector: 20ms PDF Classification for Agents
devdigest · x · 2026-08-01
Firecrawl introduced pdf-inspector, an open-source Rust library designed for agents to process PDFs efficiently without waiting for OCR.
- High Speed: Classifies any PDF in 20ms, processing 200 files in just 2.8 seconds.
- OCR-Free Extraction: Intelligently detects scanned vs. text-based PDFs, extracting text with position awareness and converting to clean Markdown.
- Tables & Graphs: Delivers top-quality extraction for tables and graphs.
- Multi-Bindings: Includes bindings for Python, Node.js, and WebAssembly for local deployment.
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