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  "breaks": "(1) Two-column PDFs are badly mangled: in the BERT paper from arXiv the title, authors, abstract and body came out as dozens of fake Markdown tables with words split across cells, lost spaces between words and reversed margin text. (2) Wikipedia fails with HTTP 403 because the server uses the default Python requests user agent with no way to change it. (3) Word tables get an empty header row with the real header pushed into the body; a Word Title paragraph is not turned into a heading. (4) An Excel formula cell with no cached value came out as NaN (test file generated without a spreadsheet app). (5) The IANA example domain page converts to only its paragraph, without its heading. (6) A non-string uri argument returns raw pydantic validation text; unknown extra arguments are silently ignored; the server reports an empty version string.",
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