firecrawl/pdf-inspector: 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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Firecrawl PDF tool, trending Rust library
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Fast Rust library for PDF classification and text extraction. By default it detects whether a PDF is text-based or scanned, extracts text with position awareness, and converts to clean Markdown without OCR. Native Rust and CLI consumers can opt into selective OCR. Includes bindings for Python, Node.js, and browser WebAssembly. Built by Firecrawl to handle text-based PDFs locally in under 200ms, skipping expensive OCR services for the ~54% of PDFs that don't need them. - Smart classification — Detect TextBased, Scanned, ImageBased, or Mixed PDFs in ~10-50ms by sampling content streams. Returns
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