PDFs often lie about or omit word and character positions — 5 failure modes explained
VikParuchuri · x · 2026-10-03
Vik Paruchuri (Datalab founder) explains that PDFs frequently lie about or omit the positions of words and characters, walking through 5 distinct ways this happens — essential context for anyone building document parsing, OCR, or RAG pipelines.
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