pdf-inspector: Open-source tool parses PDFs locally in 20ms
coallaoh · x · 2026-08-02
A new open-source tool called pdf-inspector was released, designed to help AI agents process PDFs without waiting for OCR.
Key features include:
- Ultra-fast: Classifies any PDF in 20ms and processes 200 PDFs in just 2.8s.
- High-quality extraction: Excels at extracting tables and graphs into clean Markdown.
- Built in Rust: Fully open-source and runs locally.
Related event: Firecrawl Open-Sources pdf-inspector for 20ms PDF Parsing(3 posts)→
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