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dubbid··on PDF to Text, Done Right
The idea is to also generally handle scanned documents as well. Besides sometimes text boxes can get very distorted with whitespace such that the boxes look to a computer very different then they do in new life.

In practice, you are right that this would be more efficient in many cases (not scanned, no weird whitespace), but in practice, the cost of OCR is so low compared to the LLM costs and the relative consistency of OCR outputs helps a lot means that I don't try to handle the PDF object extraction.

dubbid··on PDF to Text, Done Right
Not quite! This goes one step further to serialize the text for complex layouts in a sensible manner, using a geometry-based approach as specified in the blog post :)
dubbid··on PDF to Text, Done Right
An optical-character-recognition- and computer vision-based approach, better then anything else commercially or open-source available.
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