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PDF and DOCX to Markdown and tables, without an LLM

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Language models can read documents, but they give a different answer on a different day and charge by the token. For invoices, reports and contracts that you process in volume, a deterministic parser is often the better tool: the same file gives the same output, and the price does not depend on how long the answer is. DocToJSON reads PDF and DOCX files from a public URL and returns three things. Headings and lists become Markdown. Text keeps the order it has on the page.

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