Evidence · first-party tested

Does not preserve table structure when text appears between columns, because the intervening content and column boundaries are not kept cleanly separated in the parsed output.

✗ Failed🧾 artifact-verifiedTested Jun 20, 2026Mistral AI →
Output — unretouched
Best AI Tools to Convert Complex PDFs into Clean Markdown via API — scanned_pdf_table_with_text_between_columns.png
Best AI Tools to Convert Complex PDFs into Clean Markdown via API — scanned_pdf_table_with_text_between_columns.png
Output — unretouched
Mistral AI — mistralai_scannedpdf_multicolumn_table_with_intervening_text_parsed.png
Mistral AI — mistralai_scannedpdf_multicolumn_table_with_intervening_text_parsed.png
The observation

Does not preserve table structure when text appears between columns, because the intervening content and column boundaries are not kept cleanly separated in the parsed output.

Criterion: Table Preservation · Scenario: Scanned Research Paper (group: scanned-research-paper)
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get_evidence({
  tool: "mistral-ai",
  scenario: "scanned-research-paper"
})
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