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Rust PDF inspection library, high technical depth and actionable for data engineering.

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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. - firecrawl/pdf-inspector
Summary

Firecrawl's pdf-inspector is a pure Rust library that classifies and extracts text from PDFs locally in under 200ms, skipping OCR for the ~54% of text-based PDFs. It achieves a 0.875 overall benchmark score on the opendataloader-bench corpus (200 PDFs in 0.470s), with strong reading order (0.915) and table detection (0.814), and supports Python, Node.js, and WebAssembly bindings. The library handles CID fonts, multi-column layouts, and encoding issues, relying only on the lopdf crate with no ML models or external services.

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