Firecrawl has introduced Fire-PDF, a new PDF parsing engine rewritten in Rust, significantly enhancing the speed of converting PDFs into structured Markdown. The new engine achieves speed improvements of 3.5 to 5.7 times over its predecessor, with an average processing time of under 400 milliseconds per page. This performance boost is attributed to reduced GPU calls. Firecrawl has also open-sourced the Rust library pdf-inspector, which efficiently classifies PDF pages. Pure text pages are processed without GPU usage, while scanned or image-heavy pages utilize neural network models. Fire-PDF applies specific parameters for different content types, ensuring accuracy in tables, formulas, and multi-column layouts. The new engine is automatically available to all Firecrawl users without additional configuration.