My universal document API ran the PDF parser on a Word file — the extension was lying
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I built a universal document converter whose whole pitch is "give it any file, it picks the right parser." Auto-detection turned out to be the hardest part of the product. The failure: a pipeline I operate ingested a batch of "PDFs," and one blew up with a zip-related error deep inside the PDF pars…
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- 2026-10-07 07:37 · DEV Community — AI
My universal document API ran the PDF parser on a Word file — the extension was lying