April Momentum Update
Update
Summary
Fire-PDF is a Rust-based parsing engine that converts any PDF - scanned, text-based, or mixed - into structured markdown, up to 5x faster.
Added
5x Faster — Our open-source Rust library pdf-inspector classifies each page in milliseconds and picks the fastest extraction path. Pages are processed in under 400ms on average.
Layout-Aware Accuracy — A neural document layout model detects tables, formulas, text blocks, and headers individually. Tables get full markdown output, formulas are preserved in LaTeX, and reading order is predicted neurally.
Zero Configuration — Every PDF sent through Firecrawl's API now goes through Fire-PDF automatically.
Browser Interaction via /interact — Scrape a page, then call /interact to click buttons, fill forms, navigate, or extract dynamic content. Use natural language or write Playwright / Bash code for full control. Sessions persist across calls with live view URLs and reusable browser profiles.
Query Format — Pass a natural-language prompt to
/scrapeand get a direct answer back indata.answer.Audio Format — Request audio output from any scrape, returned as a field on the document.
onlyCleanContentParameter — Strip navigation, ads, cookie banners, and other non-semantic content from markdown output in a single flag.PDF Parsing Modes — Choose
fast,auto, orocrparsing with amaxPagesoption for fine-grained extraction control.Java & Elixir SDKs — Official SDKs with full v2 API support, joining JS, Python, Go, and Rust.
