ocr-and-documents

To extract text and tables from a scanned PDF, use OCR and layout analysis to convert the document into searchable text and structured markdown. This handles complex reading orders and recovers tables.

Yes, you can convert a PDF to markdown from a remote URL. The system uses web extraction first for accessible online links and then falls back to local parsing for files on disk.

You need OCR for PDF table extraction when the source file is a scanned document or image rather than a text-based PDF. This ensures higher fidelity layout analysis and accurate table capture.

Yes, marker-pdf supports processing equations and forms in documents. It performs advanced OCR and layout analysis to handle complex structures, equations, and forms effectively.

The best way to get metadata and images from research papers is using a local parser that applies lightweight extraction or advanced OCR to retrieve document metadata, images, and text.

Yes, you can extract content from specific page ranges in a large PDF. Page range processing allows you to target specific sections, avoiding the need to parse the entire document.