Reading order is the part of PDF parsing that quietly breaks downstream NLP
If you have ever run NER or a summarizer over text extracted from a two-column paper, you have seen it: the extractor reads straight across both columns, and every sentence ends up as halves of two different sentences. Tables flatten into word soup, formulas turn into stray symbols, and running hea…
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- 2026-10-30 06:43 · r/LanguageTechnology
Reading order is the part of PDF parsing that quietly breaks downstream NLP