PDF Convertibility Score - RipAI Docs
- Route: `/docs/cookbook/tools/pdf-convertibility-score`
- URL: https://rippdf.com/docs/cookbook/tools/pdf-convertibility-score
- Source file: `src/pages/docs/PDFConvertibilityScoreTool.jsx`
Page Summary
Interactive tool to score your PDF and decide whether to convert, use a hybrid workflow, sidecar markdown, or preserve as PDF.
Key Headings
- H1: PDF Convertibility Score
- H3: Your score is not ready yet
- H3: Your PDF Convertibility Score
Page Content Extract
- = tier.min && score
- Getting Started
- Installation Guide
- The Data Pack
- Ingesting to Pinecone
- RipAI Loader
- PDF Convertibility Score
- Answer 10 questions to score your PDF and get a recommended ingestion strategy for AI and RAG.
- Complete all questions to generate your final PDF Convertibility Score.
- Your score is not ready yet
- Your PDF Convertibility Score
- Top Risk Factors
- No major structural risks detected from your answers.
- Recommended Next Steps
- Copy Score Summary
- This tool is a decision aid, not a guarantee. Validate representative pages before production ingestion.
- Structured export (Word/Docs/HTML/LaTeX)
- Designed artifact (InDesign/Illustrator/agency layout)
- Copy/paste reading order
- Reads correctly in natural order
- Jumbled text, mixed columns, or broken order
- Layout complexity
- Mostly single-column flowing text
- Multi-column + sidebars/callouts/floating boxes
- Heading and section consistency
- Clear heading structure is repeated
- Inconsistent or mostly visual headings
- Page-to-page variability
- Page 1 and page 10 are structurally similar
- Most pages are custom compositions
- Table complexity
- Simple grid-style tables
- Merged/nested/visual tables
- Figures and captions
- Captions are consistent and adjacent
- Captions float or appear in side shapes
- Header/footer noise
- Minimal repeated noise
- Heavy repeated headers/footers/page chrome
- Scan/OCR requirement
- True text PDF
- Scanned/photographed document (OCR required)
- Glyph and encoding quality
- Clean characters and spacing
- Symbol substitutions/spacing artifacts
- Design-first layout
- Broken reading order
- Multi-column interleaving
- High page variability
- Weak heading structure
- Complex tables
- Caption alignment drift
- OCR dependency
- Glyph encoding artifacts
- Unknown document source
- Convert to Markdown
- Your PDF appears structurally friendly for automated markdown conversion.
- Hybrid (Convert + Validate)
- Conversion is viable, but quality controls are required before production ingest.
- Sidecar Only
- Preserve the PDF and use sidecar markdown summaries for retrieval support.
- Preserve as PDF
- Automated markdown conversion is likely to be unreliable for this document.
Canonical References
- https://rippdf.com/ai/docs.md
- https://rippdf.com/ai/product.md