---
title: "Document Parsing"
description: "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."
url: https://markitdown.ai/blog/category/parsing
updated: 2026-06-12
source: markitdown.ai
---

# Document Parsing

> 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.

## Posts

- [Why PDFs break LLMs — and what clean Markdown fixes](https://markitdown.ai/blog/why-pdfs-break-llms) — 2026-06-12 — 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.

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