Multi-column tables collapse into unreadable single-column blobs during PDF conversion

Summary

When a PDF page contains a multi-column layout (e.g. a table with grouped bullet lists per cell), anydoc's Markdown table reconstruction collapses the columns into a garbled single blob, losing row/column structure and legibility.

Repro

npx -y @firecrawl/anydoc "EU AI-Act-overview-30-May-2024.pdf" -o out.md

Source PDF: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/ (also mirrored at futureoflife.org)

Observed

The source page contains an "Annex III use cases" table with ~9 category rows (Non-banned biometrics, Critical infrastructure, Education, Employment, Public/private services, Law enforcement, Migration, Administration of justice), each listing several bullet points.

anydoc's output merges all of this into a handful of malformed Markdown table rows with empty leading cells, run-together bullet text with no line breaks, and stray glyph artifacts (e.g. |||flfi fi||fififififififififi|) in several rows across the document, not just this table.

Expected behavior

Either:

1. Reconstruct the table with correct row/column boundaries, or
2. Fall back to emitting the cell content as reading-order text/lists (as a plain pdftotext-style extraction does successfully on the same PDF) rather than producing a broken table that's less readable than plain text.

Environment

• @firecrawl/anydoc version: 0.2.4
• Invocation: CLI, no --ocr flag (native PDF text extraction path — same result with --ocr hosted)
• OS: macOS