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The State of PDF Parsing: What 800+ Documents and 7 Frontier LLMs Taught Us About Parser Selection
We tested 17 PDF parsers on 800+ documents—open source, commercial APIs, and frontier LLMs. Parser accuracy varies 55+ points by domain. Gemini 3 Pro leads at 88%, but LlamaParse at $0.003/page is the sweet spot for most use cases.
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