How does Firecrawl represent data charts when converting PDFs to Markdown?
Firecrawl did not preserve the data chart in this PDF-to-Markdown conversion. Its default output omitted both the chart image and its title.
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Data chart — preserved with titleFailEvidence
Change is reported as a mean annual rate over each winter, taken across the whole intertidal part of the line. Accretion varied markedly between transects, and the pattern is the same in each of the three winters measured. The rates plotted are means over the intertidal part of each line, weighted by the length of profile each observation represents. A mean of that kind conceals a good deal. On transect two most of the gain is in the upper third of the profile, and on transect four the loss is almost all at the toe of the wall; the profiles show this plainly and a mean does not. { "markdown": "# Intertidal survey of Kellow Sands and Thrimby Point\n\nReport BEP/SR/2026/11 · Survey of 19 to 23 January 2026 · Issued February 2026\n\n## Summary\n\nThe four fixed transects at Kellow Sands and Thrimby Point were resurveyed in January, in the … [5,675 characters in the file]", "metadata": { "scrapeId": "01a08b71-ddd2-75e9-aeb6-80514cd338fa", "sourceURL": "intertidal_survey_BEP-SR-2026-11.pdf", "url": "https://parse.firecrawl.dev/uploads/intertidal_survey_BEP-SR-2026-11.pdf", "statusCode": 200, "numPages": 4, "totalPages": 4, "title": "(anonymous)", "contentType": "application/pdf", "proxyUsed": "basic", "creditsUsed": 4, "concurrencyLimited": false } }
Returned Markdown: survey report text around the chart
Copied from Output file (Markdown), lines 44–48
Open the Markdown file ↗Raw API response: Markdown and metadata
Copied from Captured file (JSON), data · an excerpt
Open the whole JSON file ↗| ✗ | Expected: The chart preserved as an image in its original position, with its title. Textual chart data was optional.Found: The Markdown moved directly between the paragraphs surrounding the sediment accretion chart, without an image, link or placeholder. Its title was absent too. |
The chart and its title were both required. Firecrawl completed the conversion of the full PDF, but its default output contained neither, so the result is a fail rather than an incomplete conversion.
Alternative image request. In a separate conversion of the same PDF, Firecrawl was asked for images as well as Markdown. It returned an empty image list and no image reference at the chart’s position.
Chart data in text. The output contained no axis values, legend entries or bar values from the sediment accretion chart.
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| Level | Name | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Benchmark | Converting a complex PDF into clean Markdown with a hosted API → | 12 scenarios · 13 tools |
| Capability | Figures & Charts → | |
| Scenario | A document with a data chart → | |
| Tool | Firecrawl → |
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