My PDF converter returned an empty Markdown for a perfectly readable scan — image-only PDFs have no text layer
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The bug report arrived sideways: an agent kept failing to answer questions about a "signed supplier agreement" even though the contract was supposedly in its knowledge base. Tracing the ingestion pipeline, the culprit was my PDF-to-Markdown converter — it had returned a document with page markers a…
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- 2026-10-02 07:31 · DEV Community — AI
My PDF converter returned an empty Markdown for a perfectly readable scan — image-only PDFs have no text layer