PyMuPDF vs qalam on 6,626 Arabic PDF pages: PyMuPDF breaks 48,000 words silently, qalam breaks 700 but fails loudly on legacy fonts
TL;DR: I ran PyMuPDF 1.28 and qalam 0.1.3 on 51 real Arabic PDFs (6,626 pages: government reports, financial statements, newspapers, theses, old laws, poetry, schoolbooks, scans) and scored 26 passages against text I transcribed by hand. qalam was closer on 21 of 26. But when qalam fails, it fails…
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- 2026-10-01 12:20 · r/machinelearningnews
PyMuPDF vs qalam on 6,626 Arabic PDF pages: PyMuPDF breaks 48,000 words silently, qalam breaks 700 but fails loudly on legacy fonts