pdf-inspector: Stop Sending Every PDF Through OCR
Ever watched your RAG pipeline burn $3 and 9 seconds on OCR for a PDF that was never scanned in the first place? Yeah, me too. Every PDF hits the OCR service by default because nobody knows what’s actually inside until it’s too late. So when Firecrawl shipped pdf-inspector — a Rust classifier that tells you in ~10ms whether a PDF even needs OCR — it hit Trending for a reason. 6,633 stars and climbing fast. ...