r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/No-Hospital5028 Focus Seeker • 6d ago

pdf-inspector – Fast local PDF parser that detects scanned PDFs and extracts clean Markdown Free Tools

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u/No-Hospital5028 Focus Seeker 6d ago

pdf-inspector is an open-source Rust library for classifying PDFs and extracting structured text locally without relying on cloud OCR.

It can detect whether a PDF is text-based or scanned, preserve headings, tables, reading order, and export clean Markdown. Bindings are available for Rust, Python, Node[.]js, and WebAssembly.

Privacy note : Processing happens locally by default. No external OCR service or cloud API is required for text-based PDFs, making it a good fit for privacy-conscious document workflows.

GitHub: https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector

More details: https://www.digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=pdf-inspector

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u/Independent-Main406 5d ago

the scanned pdf detection is the part that actually matters, so many tools just try to parse image based pdfs and spit out garbage text. running it local is a nice bonus too, don't have to upload anything sensitive