microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
markitdown-ocr process non-text layer PDFs generate an MD document containing only page numbers
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Description
markitdown-ocr process non-text layer PDFs, such as those converted from images or generated through scanning,It will generate an MD document containing only page numbers
the reason is , In the file "pdf_converter_with_ocr.py",first， by "markdown_content.append(f"\n"## Page{page_num}\n)" set a page Message,
but In the subsequent code logic, whether to perform full-page OCR based on whether the content is empty。
Due to the page number information in markdown_content, markdown_content is not empty, so it will skip OCR，finally，generate an MD document containing only page numbers
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Start in pdf_converter_with_ocr.py and trace how the page heading is appended before the decision to run full-page OCR. Verify the behavior with a non-text-layer PDF and ensure the generated Markdown contains the OCR text rather than only page numbers.
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