The export is packaged as usable markdown files in a ZIP, with both overall and page-wise outputs available for inspection.
What was measured
Markdown Quality
Produces clean, well-structured, usable markdown rather than a flat text dump.
decisive for this rankingtransformation
The ranking is specifically about producing clean Markdown, so the quality and usability of the Markdown output directly measures success. (3 of 3 judges)
What was given, what came back
Test input: Scanned Research Paper · pdf · group: scanned-research-paper
Input — what we sent
45e3533a31c246b29e0ec6aaa98438e4.pdf
Scanned Research Paper
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
Also checked on this input — same tool, 7 other criteria
Complex Document Handling✓ WorkedThe tool processes a scanned multi-column research paper end-to-end and returns OCR text, tables, and embedded chart assets in page-wise markdown output.Reading Order & Structure✓ WorkedSection hierarchy and reading flow are preserved in the scanned paper, keeping headings and supporting paragraphs correctly connected despite the multi-column layout.Reading Order & Structure✗ FailedThe opening page loses the distinction between the document title and the abstract, flattening the semantic organization of the first page.Table Preservation✓ WorkedThe multicolumn table is reconstructed without losing its overall layout logic, so the table structure remains readable in the parsed output.Table Preservation✗ FailedBroken column boundaries and disrupted value alignment make the reconstructed table significantly less faithful to the source.Text & OCR Completeness◐ MixedThe report says the parser recovers much of the underlying text from the scanned paper, but it does not present a measured completeness rate and the first-page hierarchy is still lossy.Visual Content Retention✓ WorkedCharts are exposed through both page-wise markdown files and the extracted visual assets, keeping the visual content linked to its original document location.
Provenance
- Observation
- f0009fdb-31cf-4281-aceb-887be1538083
- 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: "mistral-ai",
scenario: "scanned-research-paper"
})MCP · mcp.aidemos.com/api/mcp
Free with attribution.
Same input, same check — 2 other tools
measured on Markdown Quality
Reducto✓ WorkedUses no invented tags or malformed markdown; the only HTML seen is legitimate <br /> inside table cells, so the syntax stays clean even though the document does not surface real heading markup.Tensorlake✓ WorkedRenders the scanned-paper extraction as structured markdown in the tool workflow, rather than only exposing raw OCR text.
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