Papero is a lightweight PDF parser that extracts text, tables, formulas, and layout information without machine learning, running on CPU in browsers, Python, or as an API. It converts PDFs to Markdown, JSON, Word, Excel and other formats while preserving document structure and block positions for use in RAG, search, and LLM applications.
Cloudflare's AI Search is now generally available, expanding support for multimodal formats including native image embeddings, OCR for PDFs, and larger files up to 10 MiB. The service combines multiple Cloudflare tools into a managed search pipeline and will begin billing on November 1, 2026, while maintaining a free tier.