Introducing Fire-PDF

Fire-PDF is a Rust-based parsing engine that converts any PDF - scanned, text-based, or mixed - into structured markdown, up to 5x faster.

• 5x Faster: Our open-source Rust library pdf-inspector classifies each page in milliseconds and picks the fastest extraction path. Pages are processed in under 400ms on average.
• Layout-Aware Accuracy: A neural document layout model detects tables, formulas, text blocks, and headers individually. Tables get full markdown output, formulas are preserved in LaTeX, and reading order is predicted neurally.
• Zero Configuration: Every PDF sent through Firecrawl's API now goes through Fire-PDF automatically.

Read the full blog here.