My PDF-to-Markdown converter learned that 'page 3' is a suggestion, and tables are a war crime
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Spent the last week feeding my PDF-to-Markdown converter a corpus of real-world contracts, annual reports, and academic papers. The lesson: PDF has no concept of 'reading order.' What looks like a clean two-column layout to your eyes is just a stream of positioned text boxes to the parser. My first…
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- 2026-10-24 15:03 · DEV Community — AI
My PDF-to-Markdown converter learned that 'page 3' is a suggestion, and tables are a war crime