The Deterministic Extraction Layer: Solve 80% of Your PDFs With No Model At All
Digital-native PDFs already contain readable text — what's missing is structure, and heuristics can recover it. PyMuPDF, pdfplumber, pypdf, and Tika do this with zero GPU and zero inference cost. The biggest selection trap isn't accuracy; it's PyMuPDF's AGPL-3.0 license.