Leg 2 of the approved sequence, order 20260829T071322Z-683659895-from-.claude.
Arm A of the acid test, never run before because the vegnormal PDFs were
rastered 11/11. Measurement only: no parser, no src/ change, no runtime
dependency. docling was installed as a measuring tool in an isolated venv.
pandoc 3.10.2 ships an xlsx reader. The 08-29 count reached for markitdown on
xlsx because that reader was assumed absent; it is not.
G2 holds on the Excel half: the 207 merged ranges in Bilag 7 Prisskjema pair
61/61 for all three converters. Merged geometry inflates volume without
breaking label-value pairing.
pandoc takes docx (193/196 source-string coverage, 51/53 paired, 1/1 footnote)
and xlsx (193/193, 98/98, at 9 979 non-whitespace chars against docling's
58 875 for identical coverage - docling replicates a merged cell into every
spanned column, 8x on the two measured). markitdown corrupts embedded cell
newlines into the literal two-character \n; correcting for that moves its xlsx
coverage from 184/193 to 191/193.
No converter beats the incumbent pdftotext on pdf: pandoc has no reader
(rc 21, 33/33), markitdown pairs 534/9 027 (5.9 %, same pdfminer.six failure
this repo measured independently on 2026-08-21), and docling's PDF path is
blocked - transformers 5.8.1 needs torch >= 2.4 and no x86-64 macOS wheel
exists past 2.2.2. Reported as 3 attempted, 3 failed, 30 not attempted,
because the failure precedes any file read.
docling is the only converter returning content from the Word 97 .doc.
markitdown returns exit 0 with a wrong document class on it, and a stub on
.smc/.zip; docling returns exit 0 with no file at all on those two.
Denominators come from the source's own OOXML and from raw page geometry, never
from a converter under test. Notes have no denominator here - the corpus holds
0 real footnotes or comments - so capability is characterised against an
injected known-positive instead, where docling drops the footnote 0/1 while the
other two capture it.
Stated as a measured gap, not a footnote: K1 carried the revision pairs, K2's
two stages are byte-identical, so kravspek B1 4.7 (a) utgavepar is uncovered by
this corpus.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011Ge8kWitAAx5bJh7FW9r3u
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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