Firecrawl Open-Sources pdf-inspector: Local Markdown Extraction Without OCR
bibryam · x · 2026-08-08
Firecrawl introduced pdf-inspector, a Rust-based local library for PDF processing. The tool intelligently detects whether a PDF is text-based or scanned in 10-50ms and extracts position-aware text to clean Markdown.
For the 54% of text-based PDFs that don't require OCR, it processes locally in under 200ms, bypassing expensive external OCR services. The project includes bindings for Python, Node.js, and WebAssembly for seamless workflow integration.
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