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pdf-inspector
firecrawl/pdf-inspector
A fast Rust library and CLI for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. It detects scanned versus text-based files, produces position-aware Markdown with tables, offers selective OCR, and ships Python, Node.js, and WebAssembly bindings.
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