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Graded 28 October 2026

How does LiteParse represent a document's data chart in Markdown?

LiteParse did not keep the chart as an image in Markdown. It preserved the chart's title and position, but the output reduced the chart to a placeholder link, with no image file written and OCR text standing in for the chart content.

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Data chart — preserved with titleFailEvidence
What we sent
InputDocument (PDF)
Input PDF: the page-3 chart and surrounding text
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What the tool returned
Markdown
Change is reported as a mean annual rate over each winter, taken across the whole intertidal part of the line. Accretion varied markedly between transects, and the pattern is the same in each of the three winters measured.

![](img_p3_1.png)

Mean sediment accretion by transect, winters 2023/24 to 2025/26

Markdown output: placeholder chart link, title, and OCR text

Copied from Output file (Markdown), lines 37–41

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Markdown
(mm/yr)

Accretion

2023/24 2024/25 2025/26

Transect 1 Transect 2 Transect 3 Transect 4

Transect

Copied from Output file (Markdown), lines 43–51

Expected vs. Found
✗Expected: Keep the chart as an image in place with its title; any added text is optional enrichment.Found: The title and position remain, but the chart becomes a placeholder link with no image file, and OCR text replaces the chart contents.
Supporting proof
Proof 1Screenshot
Capture screenshot: console, Markdown lines, and source chart
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Why this result

It fails because the chart was required as an image with its title, but the output kept only the title and position, plus a placeholder link with no image file behind it. The default pipeline produced OCR text instead of the image.

Also observed in this test case

Loose OCR text. The chart labels appear as loose lines rather than a table, and no chart numbers are invented.

Other figure linked. The page-2 figure is also reduced to a placeholder link, with no file written.

Tested by Vamshidhar Rao Thumula · evidence dated 28 October 2026

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Software that produced the output
LiteParse
Build or version
LiteParse 2.14.7
Surface
SDK / library
Set up before the run
A PDF with a titled data chart was provided. The library was run once on the full PDF using its default Markdown conversion pipeline, with no per-tool flag tuning or cropped-page input.
Output format
markdown
Image extraction
off
Image mode
placeholder
Configuration
Library defaults: image extraction off, image mode placeholder, built-in OCR on
Tested
28 October 2026 · Vamshidhar Rao Thumula

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7 November 2026First publishedConverting a complex PDF into clean Markdown with an open-source library v1

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aidemos.com/benchmarks/pdf-to-markdown-open-source/results/liteparse/a-document-with-a-data-chart · 0 pass · 1 fail · coverage 1/1 · graded 2026-10-28

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Input · Document (PDF) ↗application/pdf · 301 KB
Output file (Markdown) ↗text/markdown; charset=utf-8 · 6 KB
Proof 1 · Screenshot ↗image/png · 201 KB
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Input · Document (PDF)75b2bcc613580942d7d3222254c0f0d084525c2c6521f55cffa629c49f64c608
Output file (Markdown)1ee11906132cb5e631bb3001becf37c61fc945c69742cc1ae3f109ff27c0bfa6
Proof 1 · Screenshot8e25175b1f38184d2577ccd3a1bba25640a124f18525131c015f7b895394b62a