Firecrawl Open-Sources pdf-inspector: Extracts 200 PDFs in 0.47s
aigclink · x · 2026-08-12
pdf-inspector is an open-source Rust-based PDF parsing library developed by Firecrawl, focusing on rapid classification and text extraction.
- Smart Routing: Determines PDF types (TextBased, Scanned, ImageBased, or Mixed) in 10-50ms with confidence scores, intelligently deciding whether to invoke expensive OCR services.
- High-Speed Extraction: Processes 54% of text-based PDFs locally in under 200ms without OCR. A benchmark test extracted 200 PDFs in just 0.47 seconds.
- Layout Awareness: Features position-aware extraction, handling automatic multi-column layouts and complex structures like financial statements and cross-page tables, outputting clean Markdown.
- Multi-Language Bindings: Available for Python, Node.js, and WebAssembly.
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