Pain map
What breaks in document AI
290 production incidents from public threads. Every quote links to its source. Pick a category and check it yourself.
Large and long documents, lost pages
14 of 14 quotes
“I want to summarize a large pdf files approximately 200 pages using Gemma 4 E4B on LM Studio app but it cannot read the file it start reading and remained at 0% not moving”
Hugging Face forum · 24 October 2026 · open the thread “Marker failed to export the embedded image on 5 of 36 pages”
GitHub, marker · 28 August 2026 · open the thread “When processing a large Thai PDF containing 104 pages as a single MinerU job, OCR processing appears to complete successfully for all pages, but the task fails during the final stage”
GitHub, MinerU · 24 July 2026 · open the thread “My first attempt was using LlamaParse. It completely failed for this specific document. It merged pages together into 624 massive chunks, missed the Article boundaries, and ingested all the footnotes.”
Reddit, r/LangChain · 2 July 2026 · in production · open the thread “I have an 80Mb PDF, which has 184 pages of scanned grayscale images.”
GitHub, docling · 21 June 2026 · open the thread Hit this one too? We are building for it.
“The pipeline continues but layout analysis is silently skipped for failed pages.”
GitHub, docling · 21 April 2026 · open the thread “When I use Deepdoc to parse long page numbers (over 1000 pages), the error message is as follows”
GitHub, ragflow · 17 April 2026 · open the thread “We used Reducto and it did struggle with long documents. As we process financial documents going over 300+ pages using Gemini 3 Flash is producing high accuracy extracts super fast.”
Hacker News · 6 April 2026 · in production · open the thread “I’ve found it challenging to get clean copies of long documents (books).”
Hacker News · 5 April 2026 · open the thread “Processing that same page on my self-hosted setup produces: - empty output JSONL - no markdown output - pipeline log says No document text”
GitHub, olmocr · 18 March 2026 · open the thread “My pdf is 492 pages long, and I find that the OCR process got stuck on this state for about 10 mins”
GitHub, olmocr · 1 February 2026 · open the thread “When parsing certain PDF documents, some pages fail to parse and are silently skipped.”
GitHub, docling · 8 January 2026 · open the thread “During embedding, some chunk exceeds 8192 and causes an error. However, if I parse the same PDF with Deepdoc, it succeeds.”
GitHub, ragflow · 21 November 2025 · open the thread “Raptor is failing for this file with error INVALID_REQUEST”
GitHub, ragflow · 4 November 2025 · open the thread Hit this one too? We are building for it.
Method
We collected 448 public posts published after 1 November 2025 in which a builder describes document AI failing. Each link was re-opened on 8 November 2026. We kept the 290 where the quote is on the page, the author describes an incident and not an opinion, and has no tie to a vendor. Quotes are verbatim and trimmed after 420 characters. The grouping is ours. A complaint is not a measurement.