Fast and Native PDF Text Processing
PDF Inspector, developed by Firecrawl, is a fast Rust library designed to examine, classify and extract the text of PDF files. It enables intelligent routing decisions to be made in data processing processes by distinguishing scanned documents from text-based files.
Updates
- September 15, 2026: Stars 18,994 → 19,121, latest release v1.20.0 (September 15, 2026).
- September 10, 2026: Stars 18,936 → 18,994, latest release v1.19.0 (September 9, 2026).
- September 8, 2026: Stars 18,684 → 18,936, latest release v1.18.0 (September 8, 2026).
- September 3, 2026: Stars 17,255 → 18,684, latest release v1.15.0 (August 17, 2026).
What you get
- Classifies PDF files in seconds
- Converts texts to Markdown format without errors
- No need for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) services
Installation
pip install maturin
maturin develop --releasenpm install @firecrawl/pdf-inspectorIf you don't write code
I need to analyze the PDF file I have. Classify this file to see if it is text-based or a scanned document. If it is text-based, convert it to a clean Markdown format, preserving the text, tables and headings. Determine the reading order correctly by using the file's own structure and font information, without using OCR.
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TreScout did not build this tool · we found it in GitHub trends and wrote it up. This page describes the repository as of 2026-08-04: The star count and our text belong to that day, the repository may have changed since. Check the repository link for the current state. This page was machine-translated from the Turkish original · the Turkish version prevails.