Does MarkItDown recover text from a clean scanned document?
MarkItDown fails to recover text from the clean scanned document. It returned an empty Markdown file and exited successfully, while the input is a legible image-only scan with no text layer.
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Clean scan — text recoveredFailEvidence
| ✗ | Expected: Visible text is recovered accuratelyFound: No visible text was recovered; the output was empty, with zero characters and a success exit code. |
It had to recover the clean scan's visible text. The document had no text layer, and the output was empty even though the run exited successfully, so the requirement was not met.
Silent failure. It ended successfully with no error or warning, yet left an empty file and no note that a page was dropped.
Separate OCR paths. OCR exists only through separately configured routes, so it was outside this default run.
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| Level | Name | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Benchmark | Converting a complex PDF into clean Markdown with an open-source library → | 12 scenarios · 10 tools |
| Capability | Scanned Document OCR → | |
| Scenario | A cleanly scanned document → | |
| Tool | MarkItDown → |
Global scenario definition → · Global capability definition → · MarkItDown product page →
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