Keeps chart artwork embedded in the extracted page, placing the residual basal-area figure in situ beneath the extracted table text.
What was measured
Visual Content Retention
Retains charts, figures, diagrams, and images in the output and places them in the correct reading position.
decisive for this rankingtransformation
For complex PDFs, figures, charts, and images are part of the document content, so preserving them in the right place is part of the core job. (3 of 3 judges)
What was given, what came back
Test input: Scanned Research Paper · pdf · group: scanned-research-paper
Input — what we sent
An image-only scanned research paper used to stress OCR and layout recovery in a multi-column academic document with figures, charts, tables, captions, and references.
Why this input is hard
- · OCR on scanned pages
- · Multi-column reading order
- · Figure and chart handling
- · Table reconstruction from scans
- · Caption association
- · Reference extraction
- · Overall document structure retention
Output — unretouched
Also checked on this input — same tool, 5 other criteria
Complex Document Handling⚠ StruggledRequires splitting an oversized scanned paper into two PDFs before processing, because the web interface rejects uploads over 1 MB.Reading Order & Structure✗ FailedDumps the scanned title page as a dense OCR block without section boundaries or other structural cues, so the document hierarchy is lost.Table Preservation✗ FailedBreaks a grouped-column table when intervening text appears, fragmenting the 1979–1981 layout and corrupting the extracted alignment.Table Preservation✓ WorkedPreserves a multi-column scientific table of tree treatments and before/after diameters, keeping the treatment rows and inch/cm subcolumns readable.Text & OCR Completeness✓ WorkedRecovers the visible title, abstract, keywords, and opening paragraphs from a scanned USDA forestry report as dense OCR text.
Provenance
- Observation
- aaf02083-a041-4bdf-b6af-90778cdde03b
- Evidence run
- 6e3160de-fe46-4b45-b071-72560b5c5d0e
- Study
- Convert a Complex PDF into Clean Markdown with an API
- Research task
- 86b9h7t37
- Tested at
- not recorded
- Source
- first-party
- Evidence state
- verified
- Proof shown
- input + output shown
- Cost / latency
- not captured
- Repeat run
- not captured
- Tester
- not captured
The last three rows are honest blanks, not placeholders — our capture has no field for them yet.
Query this
get_evidence({
tool: "adobe-api",
scenario: "scanned-research-paper"
})MCP · mcp.aidemos.com/api/mcp
Free with attribution.
Same input, same check — 6 other tools
measured on Visual Content Retention
Extend AI◐ MixedExtracts chart values into a captioned figure block, but the report says the mortality chart's trend visualization is not fully retained.Landing AI✗ FailedConverts a scanned bar chart into a textual transcription of legend items and approximate values instead of retaining the chart visually in the output.LlamaParse◐ MixedConverts a bar chart into a structured table, preserving the legend/value mapping but not keeping the chart as a visual chart.Mistral AI✓ WorkedCharts are exposed through both page-wise markdown files and the extracted visual assets, keeping the visual content linked to its original document location.Nutrient.io⚠ StruggledExtracts the Figure 3 chart's values, but the chart structure and layout are not preserved, so the visualization is flattened into text-like output.Reducto✓ WorkedSegments a shield logo out of a single full-page raster scan and also retains Figure 1 as an image with an accurate synthesized caption; the returned logo crop is a tight 77x81px cut with legible shield text.
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