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Structured PDF extractor for RAG claims ~300 pages/s on CPU

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Structured PDF extractor for RAG claims ~300 pages/s on CPU

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A new C-based PDF extractor with Python bindings outputs structured JSON (geometry, typography, headings) and claims ~300 pages/second on CPU—about 30x faster than pymupdf4llm. It targets high-volume RAG pipelines with layout-aware chunking; no OCR or image extraction yet, and external benchmarks are not provided.

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Structured PDF extractor for RAG claims ~300 pages/s on CPU

A new C-based PDF extractor with Python bindings outputs structured JSON (geometry, typography, headings) and claims ~300 pages/second on CPU—about 30x faster than pymupdf4llm. It targets high-volume RAG pipelines with layout-aware chunking; no OCR or image extraction yet, and external benchmarks are not provided.

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