feat(render): add optional PDFium page rendering (#348)

* feat(render): add optional PDFium page rendering

* fix(render): honor PDFium row stride

* docs(render): use OCR terminology
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# pdf-inspector
Fast PDF classification and text extraction. Detects whether a PDF is text-based or scanned, extracts text with position awareness, and converts to clean Markdown — all without OCR. Pure Rust, no ML models, no external services; the only PDF dependency is [lopdf](https://crates.io/crates/lopdf). Also available for [Python](https://pypi.org/project/pdf-inspector/) and [Node.js](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@firecrawl/pdf-inspector).
Fast PDF classification and text extraction. Detects whether a PDF is text-based or scanned, extracts text with position awareness, and converts to clean Markdown — all without OCR. The default build is pure Rust, has no ML models or external services, and uses [lopdf](https://crates.io/crates/lopdf) for PDF parsing. Also available for [Python](https://pypi.org/project/pdf-inspector/) and [Node.js](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@firecrawl/pdf-inspector/).
Built by [Firecrawl](https://firecrawl.dev) to handle text-based PDFs locally in under 200ms, skipping expensive OCR services for the ~54% of PDFs that don't need them.
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let result = process_pdf_mem(&bytes)?;
```
### Optional native page rendering
The `render-pdfium` feature adds a native-only page renderer backed by
[`firecrawl-pdfium`](https://crates.io/crates/firecrawl-pdfium). It is the
rendering boundary for OCR pipelines; enabling it does not include an OCR
model or change the existing extraction functions.
```toml
[dependencies]
pdf-inspector = { version = "1", features = ["render-pdfium"] }
```
PDFium is loaded at runtime. Set `PDFIUM_LIB_PATH`, place its shared library
next to the executable, or use another discovery route supported by
`firecrawl-pdfium`.
```rust
use pdf_inspector::vision::{PdfiumRenderer, RenderOptions};
let renderer = PdfiumRenderer::load()?;
let bytes = std::fs::read("document.pdf")?;
let pages = renderer.render_pages(
&bytes,
&[1, 3], // 1-indexed, matching pages_needing_ocr
None, // optional PDF password
&RenderOptions::new().dpi(150.0),
)?;
for page in pages {
// Owned RGB pixels can leave the PDFium critical section and be sent to
// an OCR worker. OCR pixel boxes can be mapped back to PDF coordinates.
let rect = page.pixel_rect_to_pdf_rect(20.0, 30.0, 100.0, 24.0);
println!("page {}: {}x{}, rect={rect:?}", page.page(), page.width(), page.height());
}
```
Browser WASM remains on the default text-only path and does not expose native
PDFium rendering.
Extract per-page Markdown (one string per page, plus document-wide layout
metadata):