# Introducing Fire-PDF

Fire-PDF is Firecrawl's new PDF parsing engine: up to 5x faster, smarter about what hits GPU, and more accurate on complex layouts.

- Published: April 14, 2026

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

![Fire-PDF](/images/blog/fire-pdf-cover.webp)

### Highlights

* **5x Faster**: Our open-source Rust library [pdf-inspector](https://github.com/firecrawl/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](/blog/fire-pdf-launch.md).

_Canonical HTML: https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog/fire-pdf_

## Site Navigation

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### On This Topic
- [Changelog index](/changelog.md)
- [Newer entry: Introducing web-agent](/changelog/open-source-agent.md)
- [Older entry: v2.9.0 is live](/changelog/v29.md)