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Documents must be flattened to text before extraction

LangExtract only takes plain text, so PDFs, Word files, slides and Markdown tables must be converted by hand first

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 12 August 2025 · last reported 24 August 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Users who work with PDFs, Word files, PowerPoint decks and Markdown tables say the extraction library accepts only raw text strings.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.