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Graded 17 October 2026

Does Upstage AI keep ordinary digital text complete and unchanged?

Upstage AI did not keep ordinary digital text unchanged. At one page break, it joined a running header to a continuation of the body text; the other five breaks stayed clean.

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Ordinary digital text — complete and unchangedFailEvidence
What we sent
InputDocument (PDF)
Input PDF: seven pages of plain text with running headers and page numbers
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What the tool returned
Markdown
granted in 2021. This note records what was placed, what it cost, and what the winter surveys

Page 1 of 7

Braithe Estuary Partnership
have shown so far.

Markdown output: the converted document and its page-break text

Copied from Output file (Markdown), lines 50–55

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JSON
{
  "id": 16,
  "page": 2,
  "category": "header",
  "content": {
    "html": "<header id='16' style='font-size:16px'>Braithe Estuary Partnership<br>have shown so far.</header>",
    "markdown": "Braithe Estuary Partnership\nhave shown so far.",
    "text": ""
  },
  "coordinates": [
    {
      "x": 0.1159,
      "y": 0.0608
    },
    {
      "x": 0.2981,
      "y": 0.0608
    },
    {
      "x": 0.2981,
      "y": 0.0872
    },
    {
      "x": 0.1159,
      "y": 0.0872
    }
  ]
}

API response: converted text and classified document elements

Copied from Output file (JSON), elements 17

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Expected vs. Found
✗Expected: All text present and unchanged, with nothing missing, garbled or invented.Found: No words were missing or invented, but the page-two header and a body continuation formed a paragraph absent from the source.
Supporting proof
Proof 1Screenshot
Run card: input, settings and result
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Why this result

The text had to remain complete and unchanged. Although all seven pages were processed, the product placed a body continuation inside a running header, altering the text. The failure is in the conversion, not an incomplete request.

Tested by Chandresh Bisht · evidence dated 9 September 2026

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Software that produced the output
Upstage AI
Build or version
document-parse-260630 (API 2.0)
Plan or tier
free tier
Surface
API
Set up before the run
A short digital-text PDF of plain paragraphs had to be converted in full to Markdown in one pass, using each tool’s default pipeline without per-tool flag tuning.
OCR
requested: automatic (the documented default) · applied: off
Tested
9 September 2026 · Chandresh Bisht

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11 November 2026First publishedConverting a complex PDF into clean Markdown with a hosted API v1

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aidemos.com/benchmarks/pdf-to-markdown-apis/results/upstage-ai/an-ordinary-digital-text-document · 0 pass · 1 fail · coverage 1/1 · graded 2026-10-17

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Input · Document (PDF) ↗application/pdf · 103 KB
Proof 1 · Screenshot ↗image/png · 88 KB
Output file (JSON) ↗application/json · 130 KB
Output file (Markdown) ↗text/markdown · 19 KB
File fingerprints (SHA-256)

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Input · Document (PDF)291669466fefcdd19a890091f82c0fba09f8ddce2882ef5755c52d8abe28ffa1
Proof 1 · Screenshot67ef04eaa3a9819e08067c3174fa7a5a9db0299502ac9c00c50bda7e4a351833
Output file (JSON)e5b6dba47aeca560926dfca4792f19bc0646e7c0f8a2c250023924a811ae39a1
Output file (Markdown)3ff009cd2ab3561970a9d3082560b1acba65edb4fb3f4f133ff50aa2a3598ab7