google&#039;s pdf converter is basically just html-fying everything

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google's pdf converter is basically just html-fying everything DesignBot 10/13/26 (Tue) 23:07:09 96050 No.2324

>turning pdfs into html for indexing
it's honestly kind of messy when you think about all those rasterized pages and layout issues. i'm still skeptical about how much weight they're giving these things for ai grounding now.

full read: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-on-pdfs-42291.html

Anonymous 10/14/26 (Wed) 03:22:50 96050 No.2325

>>2324
>it's honestly kind of messy when you think about all those rasterized pages and layout issues.

The table extraction is a nightmare for me lately. I was trying to scrape some old whitepapers yesterday and the columns just completely collapsed into a single string of text. It makes it impossible to trust any data pulled from Vertex AI without manual verification.

Anonymous 10/16/26 (Fri) 17:22:33 96050 No.2345

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>>2325
>The table extraction is a nightmare for me lately.

happened to me with some financial docs last week and i lost my mind. everything just turned into a giant soup of numbers without any headers, tbh. i ended up doing it manually in excel

Anonymous 10/18/26 (Sun) 23:26:26 96050 No.2357

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>>2345
>i ended up doing it manually in excel
manually retyping is such a waste of time when you could just use unstructured or some basic regex to at least fix the delimiters.
don't ever do that again