we open sourced the fastest pdf parser engine

we open sourced the fastest pdf parser engine

pdf-inspector powers /parse together with our custom OCR models

0.002s per page

**Quoted @nickscamara_:** we built pdf-inspector so agents can process PDFs without waiting on OCR. it classifies any PDF in ~20ms and extracts clean markdown locally

→ 200 PDFs processed in 2.8s

→ top quality in extracting tables + graphs

→ built in rust

→ open source

http://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector https://t.co/giWEddU6ug

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