Evidence · first-party tested · observation #49

Scanned multi-column papers require the parser to recover both hierarchy and reading flow.

✓ Worked🧾 artifact-verifiedTested Jun 12, 2026LlamaParse
Input — the actual file we sent
Scanned multi-column research paper
An image-only scanned research paper created from an OCR-bearing original by converting pages to images and rebuilding the PDF without searchable text. It contains text, multi-column layouts, figures, charts, tables, captions, and references, and is designed to stress OCR and reconstruction quality.
Output — unretouched
Multi-level segment comparison table with year-over-year changes.
Multi-level segment comparison table with year-over-year changes.
Output — unretouched
Parsed rendering of the segment comparison table.
Parsed rendering of the segment comparison table.
The observation

Scanned multi-column papers require the parser to recover both hierarchy and reading flow.

Criterion: text-between-columns handling · Scenario: Scanned multi-column research paper (group: scanned-research-paper)
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get_evidence({
  tool: "llamaparse",
  scenario: "scanned-research-paper"
})
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