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Your extraction succeeded. The text is still wrong.
"status": "success" doesn't mean the text is usable. Mojibake, scrambled columns, fused words, and a dozen other quality failures all return a clean success. Find your symptom, see why it happens, and fix it.
These are extraction-quality problems. The response came back success and the text is still broken. Getting an actual API error instead? See the error reference. Not sure your file is even the format you think it is? The file type inspector fingerprints it from its bytes. New to some of the vocabulary below, like text layer, mojibake, or reading order? The glossary of extraction terms defines each one plainly.
Characters & encoding
extracted text is full of mojibake or replacement characters
See why, and how to fix it →It won’t behave the way you expect—and “smart quotes†turn into this.missing spaces between words in extracted text
See why, and how to fix it →Revenue grew 34% driven byEMEA demand.The board approved a newpricing tier.hyphenated line breaks left in extracted text
See why, and how to fix it →The report covers the inter- national deployment process in detail.unexpanded ligatures and curly punctuation in extracted text
See why, and how to fix it →The office workflow relies on efficient filing — but ligature glyphs like fi and fl don't always expand back to plain letters.
Layout & structure
two-column PDF text comes out interleaved and scrambled
See why, and how to fix it →Revenue grew 34% year over year, driven by The board approved a new enterprise pricing tier and a hiring plan targeting engineering and salesPDF or scanned tables flatten into unreadable space-separated text
See why, and how to fix it →Name Amount Date Alice 120 2026-01-04 Bob 75 2026-01-11 Carol 410 2026-01-19the same header, footer, or page number shows up in every chunk
See why, and how to fix it →Confidential — Acme Corp Internal Use Only ...page content... Confidential — Acme Corp Internal Use Only 3 ...more content...extracted text is hard-wrapped at the print page's line width
See why, and how to fix it →This is a long paragraph that has been hard-wrapped by a naive text extraction pipeline instead of being reflowed into one continuous line the way a real paragraph normally would be represented in clean extracted text.extracted text is one giant undifferentiated blob with no paragraph breaks
See why, and how to fix it →Sentence one keeps this block going. Sentence two keeps this block going without any blank line anywhere in it. Sentence three keeps this block going the exact same way, and so does every sentence after it for the rest of the document.
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