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markitdown 0.1.9 on PDF
1,077 files: text from 648, empty 397, errors 31, hangs 1, crashes 0. 724 files give text to at least one library.
🔴 Fails where another library reads text: 12
| Brotli-Prototype-FileA.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw PDFNotImplementedError with message: Unsupported filter: /'BrotliDecode' (0.068 s) |
| auth-event-ef-open.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw PDFPasswordIncorrect with message: (0.165 s) |
| bug1250079.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw PDFSyntaxError with message: No /Root object! - Is this really a PDF? (0.057 s) |
| crypt_filters.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw PDFEncryptionError with message: Unsupported crypt filter: param={'Filte (0.047 s) |
| encrypted-attachment.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw PDFPasswordIncorrect with message: (0.088 s) |
| franz_2.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw TypeError with message: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'PD (0.067 s) |
| issue11549_reduced.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw PSSyntaxError with message: Invalid dictionary construct: [/'BaseFont', (0.053 s) |
| issue22011.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw PSSyntaxError with message: Invalid dictionary construct: [/'Type', /'Pa (0.429 s) |
| issue6108.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw Error with message: Odd-length string (0.1 s) |
| issue7665.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw TypeError with message: 'PDFObjRef' object is not subscriptable (0.044 s) |
| perf_text_labels.pdf | no result after 60.0 s (60.0 s) |
| poppler-90-0-fuzzed.pdf | FileConversionException: File conversion failed after 1 attempts: - PdfConverter threw Error with message: Non-hexadecimal digit found (0.12 s) |
🟡 Empty where another library reads text: 64
| annotation-tx.pdf | no text (0.078 s) |
| annotation-tx2.pdf | no text (0.107 s) |
| annotation-tx3.pdf | no text (0.096 s) |
| annotation_hidden_noview.pdf | no text (0.176 s) |
| bug1675139.pdf | no text (0.196 s) |
| bug1724918.pdf | no text (0.044 s) |
| bug1770750.pdf | no text (0.041 s) |
| bug1782564.pdf | no text (0.042 s) |
| bug1796741.pdf | no text (0.039 s) |
| bug1802506.pdf | no text (0.062 s) |
| bug1802888.pdf | no text (0.042 s) |
| bug1811510.pdf | no text (0.053 s) |
| bug1825002.pdf | no text (0.026 s) |
| bug1844576.pdf | no text (0.077 s) |
| bug1844583.pdf | no text (0.054 s) |
| bug1851498.pdf | no text (0.048 s) |
| bug1865341.pdf | no text (0.056 s) |
| bug1871353.1.pdf | no text (0.038 s) |
| bug1871353.pdf | no text (0.055 s) |
| bug1922766.pdf | no text (0.07 s) |
| bug1934157.pdf | no text (0.062 s) |
| bug1978317.pdf | no text (37.435 s) |
| bug2026037.pdf | no text (0.06 s) |
| bug2055455.pdf | no text (0.072 s) |
| bug920426.pdf | no text (0.111 s) |
| checkbox_no_appearance.pdf | no text (0.047 s) |
| dates_save.pdf | no text (0.054 s) |
| evaljs.pdf | no text (0.051 s) |
| freetext_no_appearance.pdf | no text (0.048 s) |
| freetexts.pdf | no text (0.092 s) |
| issue1293r.pdf | no text (0.048 s) |
| issue15716.pdf | no text (0.077 s) |
| issue15815.pdf | no text (0.083 s) |
| issue15818.pdf | no text (0.103 s) |
| issue16021.pdf | no text (0.069 s) |
| issue16473.pdf | no text (0.036 s) |
| issue16633.pdf | no text (0.046 s) |
| issue17998.pdf | no text (0.111 s) |
| issue18099_reduced.pdf | no text (0.09 s) |
| issue18117.pdf | no text (0.121 s) |
| issue18536.pdf | no text (0.06 s) |
| issue18561.pdf | no text (0.075 s) |
| issue19083.pdf | no text (0.271 s) |
| issue20504.pdf | no text (0.026 s) |
| issue20504_skia.pdf | no text (0.075 s) |
| issue2931.pdf | no text (0.095 s) |
| issue3323.pdf | no text (0.043 s) |
| issue4402_reduced.pdf | no text (0.106 s) |
| issue5946.pdf | no text (0.072 s) |
| issue7901.pdf | no text (0.15 s) |
| issue9418.pdf | no text (0.715 s) |
| issue9534_reduced.pdf | no text (0.054 s) |
| issue9915_reduced.pdf | no text (0.176 s) |
| js-authors.pdf | no text (0.049 s) |
| js-colors.pdf | no text (0.086 s) |
| listbox_actions.pdf | no text (0.072 s) |
| operator-in-TJ-array.pdf | no text (0.103 s) |
| perf_text_cmap_mixed.pdf | no text (0.129 s) |
| perf_transparency_soft_masks.pdf | no text (0.101 s) |
| prefilled_f1040.pdf | no text (0.131 s) |
| resetform.pdf | no text (0.056 s) |
| resetform_parent.pdf | no text (0.066 s) |
| rotated_freetexts.pdf | no text (0.103 s) |
| secHandler.pdf | no text (0.076 s) |
⚔️ Compare: markitdown vs PyMuPDF
Changes between versions
0.1.8 → 0.1.9: 1 newly failing, 0 fixed
| perf_text_labels.pdf | newly failing |
0.1.7 → 0.1.8: 0 newly failing, 1 fixed
| perf_text_labels.pdf | fixed |
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For a README:
[](https://prometheus-maker.github.io/reader-board/pdf-markitdown.html)Slowest files
| freeculture.pdf | 38.494 s, 247 MB |
| bug1978317.pdf | 37.435 s, 425 MB |
| perf_text_transformed.pdf | 20.626 s, 393 MB |
| issue12810.pdf | 16.299 s, 393 MB |
| issue12295.pdf | 14.485 s, 396 MB |
| bug1721218_reduced.pdf | 14.132 s, 247 MB |
| issue6961.pdf | 12.763 s, 393 MB |
| pdkids.pdf | 11.849 s, 251 MB |
| TAMReview.pdf | 8.818 s, 142 MB |
| perf_structure_forms.pdf | 7.39 s, 396 MB |
Recipe: board/targets.py. Run: 2026-11-06T16:37:09Z, Python 3.13.18, Linux x86_64, 4 CPUs (log). Installed: beautifulsoup4==4.15.0, certifi==2026.10.23, cffi==2.1.1, charset-normalizer==3.5.2, click==8.5.0, cryptography==50.0.2, defusedxml==0.7.1, flatbuffers==25.12.19, idna==3.20, magika==1.0.3, markdownify==1.2.3, markitdown==0.1.9, numpy==2.5.4, onnxruntime==1.31.1, packaging==26.3, pdfminer.six==20260107, pdfplumber==0.11.10, pillow==13.0.0, protobuf==7.36.2, pycparser==3.12, pypdfium2==5.15.0, requests==2.34.2, six==1.17.0, soupsieve==4.0.1, typing_extensions==4.16.0, urllib3==2.8.0