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Document Parsing is a blog category about recovering structure — columns, tables, headings, and scanned text — from PDFs, Office files, images, and HTML before a model ever sees it, and what a converter should keep.

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Document Parsing

Why PDFs break LLMs — and what clean Markdown fixes

Jun 12, 2026 · 3 min read

A PDF that looks perfect to a human often falls apart the moment a model reads it. Here's what goes wrong, and why converting to clean Markdown first makes downstream AI far more reliable.

Document Parsing

Why PDFs break LLMs — and what clean Markdown fixes

Convert your first file to Markdown.