Hard no.
LLMs aren't going to magically do more than what your PDF rendering engine does, rastering it and OCR'ing doesn't change anything. I am amazed at how many people actually think it is a sane idea.
LLMs aren't going to magically do more than what your PDF rendering engine does, rastering it and OCR'ing doesn't change anything. I am amazed at how many people actually think it is a sane idea.
But what about the "scanned" document part? How do you handle that? Your PDF rendering engine probably just says: image at pos x,y with size height,width.
So as parent says you have to OCR/AI that photo anyway and it seems that's also a feasible approach for "real" pdfs.
So you could build an approach that works for the 60% case, is more complex to build, and produces inferior results, but then you still need to also build the ocr pipeline for the other 40%. And if you’re building the ocr pipeline anyway and it produces better results, why would you not use it 100%?