A developer shares their experience building a PDF chat app and discovering @opendocsg/pdf2md, a JavaScript library that processes PDFs entirely in the browser. The solution eliminates server-side processing costs and infrastructure complexity that typically plague enterprise PDF processing systems. The library converts PDFs to markdown client-side, offering 3-5x faster conversion times with zero server costs. The author provides a complete React implementation and argues this approach could save enterprises millions in PDF processing infrastructure costs.

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