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My PDF converter returned an empty Markdown for a 200-page prospectus — the text was in a layer I couldn't see

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A user fed my PDF-to-Markdown endpoint a real financial prospectus and got back a single heading and nothing else. File size: 14 MB. Page count: 200. Markdown output: 47 bytes. I assumed corruption at first, then assumed an encrypted PDF, then actually opened the thing. The text wasn't missing. It…

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  1. 2026-10-13 23:00 · DEV Community — AI
    My PDF converter returned an empty Markdown for a 200-page prospectus — the text was in a layer I couldn't see

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