firecrawl/pdf-inspector

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Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.

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I built a free tool( https://mdpdf.net ), based on the fast PDF conversion library ( https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector ). It runs entirely in the user’s browser. In my view, the biggest pain points when converting PDF to Markdown…
comment by fishisnow · 2026-10-16 · in Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally