Parse PDFs with Firecrawl using PDF parser modes and per-page credit billing

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Documented steps

  1. By default Firecrawl parsers include 'pdf' — PDF content is extracted to markdown, billed 1 credit per page.
  2. Leave parsers at default for text extraction.
  3. To get raw PDF bytes instead, set parsers to an empty array [] — PDF returned as base64 at a flat 1 credit for the whole PDF.
  4. Choose a PDF mode via parsers: { type:'pdf', mode:'fast' } (embedded text only), 'auto' (default; fast first, OCR fallback), or 'ocr' (force OCR every page).
  5. Limit scanned pages with maxPages:1-10000.
  6. Enable redactPII if pages contain personal data before OCR/processing.

Known gotchas

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