Practical guides on PDF parsing, Markdown workflows, document translation, and preparing documents for LLMs.
Updated 2026-08-07
Seven tested ways to translate a PDF — Google Translate, Word, DeepL, ChatGPT, and AI translators that keep your layout. What works for scanned files, formulas, and long documents.
2026-07-09
Working code for pymupdf4llm, MarkItDown, Marker, and pdfplumber — plus when a Visual Language Model API beats all of them. Benchmarked on tables, formulas, and scanned PDFs.
Updated 2026-08-07
We tested 7 PDF to Markdown converters on a two-column paper, a scanned book chapter, and a financial report: pdf2md, CloudConvert, iLovePDF, MarkItDown, Marker, Mathpix, and KolmoPDF.