Pdf-inspector: The rust-powered open-source PDF parser for AI
Firecrawl open source · MIT RSRust core PDF structure,built for speed. A Rust-powered, open-source parser that classifies PDFs and turns native text into clean, position-aware Markdown. Use it from Node.js or the bundled CLI, with packages also available from PyPI and crates.io.
- ▪Firecrawl open source · MIT RSRust core PDF structure,built for speed.
- ▪A Rust-powered, open-source parser that classifies PDFs and turns native text into clean, position-aware Markdown.
- ▪Use it from Node.js or the bundled CLI, with packages also available from PyPI and crates.io.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,597 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Github |
| Canonical URL | https://firecrawl.github.io/pdf-inspector/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:26:58 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T13:45:42.380Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T13:45:42.380Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | C40E0cqoncpS · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Firecrawl open source · MIT RSRust core PDF structure,built for speed. A Rust-powered, open-source parser that classifies PDFs and turns native text into clean, position-aware Markdown. Use it from Node.js or the bundled CLI, with packages also available from PyPI and crates.io. View on GitHub ↗ Try it locally ↓ Read the docs → npm CLI · local $ npm i -g @firecrawl/pdf-inspector installed the native package + CLI $ pdf-inspector annual-report.pdf # Annual report 2025 ## Financial highlights | Metric | 2025 | 2024 | |---|---:|---:| document typeTextBased outputstructured Markdown engineRust npm npmNode.js + CLI ↗ npm i @firecrawl/pdf-inspector Py PyPIPython ↗ pip install pdf-inspector Cr crates.ioRust ↗ cargo add pdf-inspector [ 01 / 05 ]Browser demo Try it inyour browser.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Github.
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