The Verge

Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs?

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SecurityWeek

Critical Apache Tika Vulnerability Leads to XXE Injection

The bug allows attackers to carry out XML External Entity (XXE) injection attacks via crafted XFA files inside PDF files. A critical-severity vulnerability in the Apache Tika open source analysis ...
VentureBeat

Databricks: 'PDF parsing for agentic AI is still unsolved' — new tool replaces multi-service pipelines with single function

There is a lot of enterprise data trapped in PDF documents. To be sure, gen AI tools have been able to ingest and analyze PDFs, but accuracy, time and cost have been less than ideal. New technology ...
GitHub

bibhu342/PDF-Parser-Pro

PDF-Parser-Pro is an AI-powered Python tool that extracts structured tables and key fields from business PDFs (invoices, statements, reports). It handles both text-based and scanned PDFs using OCR, ...
GitHub

LLamaparse is missing chunks of text when parsing PDF / How Do You Ensure Your Parser Fully Parses a Document Without Missing Content (Text/Tables/Information)?

I’ve been testing LlamaParse for PDF parsing, and I was surprised to find that when I manually checked the output, some text seemed to be missing. I’m wondering how others ensure that the parser truly ...
IEEE

PDF Investigation With Parser Differentials and Ontology

Abstract: This paper describes the Verifiable Automatic Language Analysis and Recognition for Inputs (VALARIN) system to process, evaluate, and flag unsafe PDFs. The ...