microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
OCR Fallback Not Working
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Description
OCR fallback does not trigger on image-based PDFs, even with enable_plugins=True, Tesseract and Poppler installed, and [all] extras used. pytesseract works manually but convert() returns empty text_content.
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Research direction
Start at the PDF conversion entry point around convert() and reproduce the report with an image-based PDF and the stated OCR dependencies. Trace why the fallback produces empty text_content; done means the reported PDF yields OCR text when the fallback is enabled.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100