🔗 A PDF parser from the 80s beats Claude (and they use it internally)

Tesseract, an OCR tool from 1985, outperformed modern AI models when parsing complex PDF files, as highlighted in Fayner Brack's article. After struggling with a scanned CIA PDF using advanced models like those from Google and Anthropic, Brack discovered that Tesseract was ten times faster and more accurate. The article reveals how Claude integrates Tesseract via PyTesseract , relying on a…