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Sep 3, 2026 · Backend Development

pdf-inspector: 18.3K-Star Rust Library Cuts PDF Processing Costs 50% in 200ms

Firecrawl's pdf-inspector classifies PDFs into text, scanned, image, or mixed types in 10-50ms, extracts structured Markdown from text pages locally in ~150ms, and routes only image pages to OCR, reducing processing costs by 54% while outperforming PyMuPDF4LLM and MarkItDown in speed and table extraction.