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Are PDFs expected to be buffers?
When trying to upload a pdf url
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https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ochoa.pdf
we just get back a buffer rather than text
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Adobe.Flash
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6/24/24, 6:33 PM
Hm
, no
. It should always attempt to parse it out of the box
. Will look into it
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Adobe.Flash
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6/24/24, 6:34 PM
https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl/issues/310
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[BUG] Pdf being returned as a buffer instead of text · Issue #310 ·...
When trying to upload a pdf url
,
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ochoa.pdf
we just get back a buffer rather than text by
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