Firecrawl Launches pdf-inspector in Rust — 5.7x Faster PDF Parsing With Smart Scanned-vs-Text Routing, 733 Stars in 2 Days

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Firecrawl open-sourced pdf-inspector on April 15, a Rust library that classifies PDF pages by analyzing font encodings, text operators, and image coverage in ~20ms without rendering. Text-based pages get instant native extraction (~150ms), while only scanned/image-heavy pages route to GPU OCR. Eliminates GPU processing for the majority of pages in mixed documents. +413 stars today, live for all Firecrawl API users automatically.