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PDF not supported #296

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cgrain opened this issue Jan 20, 2025 · 2 comments
Open

PDF not supported #296

cgrain opened this issue Jan 20, 2025 · 2 comments

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@cgrain
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cgrain commented Jan 20, 2025

Dear team,

Can you please clarify your readme file?

PDF isn't supported. Not really, because it fails most relevant tests: recognizing headings, footers, tables, and more is not possible. It therefore doesn't convert a PDF to markdown, but to a raw text file. That can be relevant, but is simply not the promise.
It would be helpful before investigating your package to be made aware of that. Your readme tells me in the first 2 lines that I can use it to convert a PDF to markdown, seemingly the most important feature. I was shocked to learn this is not the case, at all.

I am aware that PDF is a terrible format, and usefully converting it requires significant research. Therefore, I don't expect this is a feature that will be provided in this package. However, could you please update the description of your package in that case?

@alexmonti19
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