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Kagi Assistant does not send files to models properly

Kagi Assistant failed to send an attached PDF to a user-selected model for OCR, instead returning a document-reader error stating "Min document size not reached" for the file uploads/foobar.pdf. The user cited Kagi feedback thread 6801 on Gemini document processing, which they said should have resolved PDF handling, and argued Kagi Assistant should send the raw file to the model. The PDF's contents were never transcribed.

by read1 min views9 publishedOct 16, 2026

I wan't to OCR PDFs to Markdown TEXT using a model of my choice that supports ingesting PDFs.

How do I do this?

Output of the "Read source" step:

No relevant content could be extracted: the attached PDF was unavailable for processing, so its text cannot be quoted verbatim.

Output of the "Contemplating" step:

Analyzing File Errors

I'm currently investigating the failure to load a specific PDF file, identified as uploads/foobar.pdf. The error message points to an issue with the document's size not meeting a minimum requirement. This seems to be the primary cause for the read failure. I plan to check the file's dimensions.

Final output:

[unreadable:

The attached file foobar.pdf could not be processed by the document reader ("Min document size not reached"), so its contents are unavailable and cannot be transcribed.]

According to https://kagifeedback.org/d/6801-gemini-use-document-processing-for-much-better-pdf-handling the problem I'm describing shouldn't exist anymore... but it does!

What should have happened is that Kagi Assistant sends the raw file to the model.

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