Dumps the scanned title page as a dense OCR block without section boundaries or other structural cues, so the document hierarchy is lost.
What was measured
Reading Order & Structure
Maintains headings, sections, column order, document hierarchy, and overall flow.
decisive for this rankingtransformation
Clean Markdown requires the original reading order, headings, sections, and hierarchy to be maintained correctly. (3 of 3 judges)
What was given, what came back
Test input: Scanned Research Paper · pdf · group: scanned-research-paper
Input — what we sent
An image-only scanned research paper used to stress OCR and layout recovery in a multi-column academic document with figures, charts, tables, captions, and references.
Why this input is hard
- · OCR on scanned pages
- · Multi-column reading order
- · Figure and chart handling
- · Table reconstruction from scans
- · Caption association
- · Reference extraction
- · Overall document structure retention
Output — unretouched
Also checked on this input — same tool, 5 other criteria
Complex Document Handling⚠ StruggledRequires splitting an oversized scanned paper into two PDFs before processing, because the web interface rejects uploads over 1 MB.Table Preservation✗ FailedBreaks a grouped-column table when intervening text appears, fragmenting the 1979–1981 layout and corrupting the extracted alignment.Table Preservation✓ WorkedPreserves a multi-column scientific table of tree treatments and before/after diameters, keeping the treatment rows and inch/cm subcolumns readable.Text & OCR Completeness✓ WorkedRecovers the visible title, abstract, keywords, and opening paragraphs from a scanned USDA forestry report as dense OCR text.Visual Content Retention✓ WorkedKeeps chart artwork embedded in the extracted page, placing the residual basal-area figure in situ beneath the extracted table text.
Provenance
- Observation
- 24968ab8-597c-4c69-9ec3-a0c216320ebc
- Evidence run
- 6e3160de-fe46-4b45-b071-72560b5c5d0e
- Study
- Convert a Complex PDF into Clean Markdown with an API
- Research task
- 86b9h7t37
- Tested at
- not recorded
- Source
- first-party
- Evidence state
- verified
- Proof shown
- input + output shown
- Cost / latency
- not captured
- Repeat run
- not captured
- Tester
- not captured
The last three rows are honest blanks, not placeholders — our capture has no field for them yet.
Query this
get_evidence({
tool: "adobe-api",
scenario: "scanned-research-paper"
})MCP · mcp.aidemos.com/api/mcp
Free with attribution.
Same input, same check — 8 other tools
measured on Reading Order & Structure
Extend AI✓ WorkedReconstructs a multi-column research page so the 'STUDY AREA' heading, its paragraphs, and the following 'STAND PRESCRIPTIONS' section stay in order.Landing AI✗ FailedMisinterprets the opening page's structure, breaking the relationship between the title and surrounding content on the scanned paper.LlamaParse✓ WorkedReflows a two-column scanned page into a single coherent reading order while preserving section-to-body flow.Mistral AI✓ WorkedSection hierarchy and reading flow are preserved in the scanned paper, keeping headings and supporting paragraphs correctly connected despite the multi-column layout.Nutrient.io✓ WorkedThe tool preserves section hierarchy and column order in a dense multi-column scanned section, keeping headings aligned with the correct body text.Reducto⚠ StruggledDisplaces the byline by a full column: the author line that sits above the two-column split in the source is emitted only after the entire left column, and its footnote markers are rendered inconsistently.Tensorlake✓ WorkedRetains section-level reading order in a scanned multi-column paper, with headings continuing to guide the flow across columns and into the next section.Upstage AI✗ FailedBreaks paragraph-level segmentation in the scanned two-column page, so the extracted text no longer follows the source column order cleanly.
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