Context
We're evaluating anydoc as a replacement for our current Python-based extraction pipeline (PyMuPDF, openpyxl, python-docx, python-pptx). anydoc is dramatically faster and leaner — 378x faster on a 2.2MB XLSX, 40x less memory.
For PDFs, we're currently using pdf-inspector directly (extract_pages_markdown_bytes) to get per-page markdown. This works great, but it means we need two separate libraries for what feels like one job.
Request
Would it be possible to support PDFs in to_document() — or add a page-aware extraction mode to anydoc itself?
Currently:
to_document() raises UnsupportedError for PDFs ("PDF converts directly to Markdown; use to_markdown or to_markdown_bytes")to_markdown_bytes() returns one blob with no page boundariespdf-inspector has extract_pages_markdown_bytes() which returns per-page markdown with page numbers, OCR flags, and table detection — exactly what we need
Ideally anydoc could either:
- Support
to_document() for PDFs with page-level blocks, or
- Expose a
to_markdown_pages() / to_markdown_bytes_pages() that wraps pdf-inspector's per-page extraction
This would let consumers use one library for all formats with consistent per-page output.
Workaround
Using pdf-inspector directly for PDFs and anydoc for everything else works fine — just adds a second dependency.
Context
We're evaluating anydoc as a replacement for our current Python-based extraction pipeline (PyMuPDF, openpyxl, python-docx, python-pptx). anydoc is dramatically faster and leaner — 378x faster on a 2.2MB XLSX, 40x less memory.
For PDFs, we're currently using
pdf-inspectordirectly (extract_pages_markdown_bytes) to get per-page markdown. This works great, but it means we need two separate libraries for what feels like one job.Request
Would it be possible to support PDFs in
to_document()— or add a page-aware extraction mode to anydoc itself?Currently:
to_document()raisesUnsupportedErrorfor PDFs ("PDF converts directly to Markdown; use to_markdown or to_markdown_bytes")to_markdown_bytes()returns one blob with no page boundariespdf-inspectorhasextract_pages_markdown_bytes()which returns per-page markdown with page numbers, OCR flags, and table detection — exactly what we needIdeally anydoc could either:
to_document()for PDFs with page-level blocks, orto_markdown_pages()/to_markdown_bytes_pages()that wraps pdf-inspector's per-page extractionThis would let consumers use one library for all formats with consistent per-page output.
Workaround
Using
pdf-inspectordirectly for PDFs andanydocfor everything else works fine — just adds a second dependency.