Fast PDF extraction misses image-based text - use Full for scans
Use Full PDF text extraction when accuracy matters, not Fast. Fast mode pulls embedded PDF text and skips the scan pass, so anything rendered as an image - footer addresses, stamps, letterheads - silently drops out of the result. Fast is fine for born-digital PDFs where you want speed; for scans or mixed documents, pay for Full or you will chase missing fields that were never extracted.
Context: Klippa OCR integration docs (Automation Anywhere bot readme): PDF text extraction has two modes - Fast tries to extract embedded text from the PDF for speed, Full scans the whole document. Fast can miss details that live in images, e.g. a company address in a document footer.Maintainer review
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