Hi all, I’m one of the cofounders of Doctly.ai, and I want to share our story. Doctly wasn’t originally meant to be a PDF-to-Markdown parser—we started by trying to feed complex PDFs into AI systems. One of the first natural steps in many AI workflows is converting PDFs to either markdown or JSON. However, after testing all the available solutions (both proprietary and open-source), we realized none could handle the task without producing tons of errors, especially with complex PDFs and scanned documents. So, we decided to tackle this problem ourselves and built Doctly. While our parser isn’t perfect, it far outpaces most others and excels at parsing text, tables, figures, and charts from PDFs with high precision. While no solution is perfect, Doctly is leagues ahead of the competition when it comes to precision. Our AI-driven parser excels at extracting text, tables, figures, and charts from even the most challenging PDFs. Doctly’s intelligent routing automatically selects the ideal model for each page, whether it’s simple text or a complex multi-column layout, ensuring high accuracy with every document. With our API and Python SDK, it’s incredibly easy to integrate Doctly into your workflow. And as a thank-you for checking us out, we’re offering free credits so you can experience the difference for yourself. Head over to Doctly.ai, sign up, and see how it can transform your document processing!

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AI-Powered PDF Parsing to Clean, Structured Markdown Output

AI-Powered PDF Parsing to Clean, Structured Markdown Output