Processes the 18-page report in 9.7 seconds with no truncation; the 9-column segment table at page 17 is flawless even though the first table on page 2 is broken.

◐ Mixed🧾 artifact-verifiedinput + output shownTest date not recordedReducto
What was measured
Complex Document Handling

Maintains quality across long, multi-section, and mixed-content documents without degradation.

decisive for this rankingtransformation

The subject explicitly says complex PDF, so sustained quality across long, mixed-content documents is central to the tool’s ability to do the job. (3 of 3 judges)

What was given, what came back

Test input: Financial Report - Table Heavy · pdf · group: financial-report-table-heavy
Input — what we sent
doc.pdf
Financial Report - Table Heavy

A table-heavy corporate financial report used to test extraction of dense, hierarchical financial statements with grouped columns, multi-row headers, segment-reporting tables, and narrative disclosures.

Why this input is hard
  • · Multi-page financial statement extraction
  • · Hierarchical table reconstruction
  • · Grouped columns and multi-row headers
  • · Reading order in a report with mixed narrative and tables
  • · Document structure retention
  • · Markdown usability
Output — unretouched
Output 1
research-media-reducto-input2-financialpdf-output-d0513091b86a.md
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Output 2
Output 2
Output 3
Output 3
Also checked on this input — same tool, 8 other criteria
Advanced Features✗ FailedThe confidence field is nearly useless here: the only low-confidence flag is a false alarm on the correct page-18 section header, while the genuinely broken Business Results table stays high-confidence throughout.Advanced Features✓ WorkedSchema-driven extract.run fully recovers the broken Business Results table, separating the 2024 value and percent-change fields that parse.run had merged together.Markdown Quality✓ WorkedKeeps the syntax clean: no <signature>, <empty>, <b>, <i>, or <u> tags appear anywhere in the output, and the table-of-contents extract renders as a valid pipe table.Reading Order & Structure✗ FailedProvides zero markdown heading markup across all 18 pages; the Roman-numeral sections and numbered subsections are flattened into plain text despite the source’s visible section hierarchy.Table Preservation✗ FailedBreaks a 5-column business-results table by duplicating the 2025 header and merging the 2024 value and percent change into one cell; the Net sales row ends up with 254,811 and 2.6 smashed together.Table Preservation✓ WorkedPreserves the balance-sheet hierarchy and values, including Assets > Current assets > Cash and deposits, and also reconstructs the later 9-column segment table with all values correct.Text & OCR Completeness✓ WorkedConverts all 18 pages with no omitted text; a dense financial-condition paragraph preserves multiple JPY-billion values exactly, including JPY1,252.7 billion, JPY623.6 billion, JPY27.2 billion, JPY10.8 billion, JPY5.0 billion, and JPY9.7 billion.Visual Content Retention✓ WorkedRetains the recurring page-header logo consistently across all 17 pages that carry it; the returned crops on pages 2 and 18 are the same mark and wordmark, with only a 1px width difference (453x36 vs 452x36) consistent with rounding.
Provenance
Observation
bfda059c-a8f9-41ce-8796-bcc01ea2026d
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
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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: "reducto",
  scenario: "financial-report-table-heavy"
})
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measured on Complex Document Handling
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