Pain point · Reliability & bugs · Causes churn
Extract From PDF node runs out of memory on a small file
3 source threads · first seen 2025-06 · last seen 2025-09
Summary
Extracting text from a roughly 300 KB PDF uploaded through the Form node stops with an out-of-memory error on a self-hosted Docker install.
- Affects
- Self-hosted Docker users
Evidence
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“the execution stops unexpectedly with an out-of-memory error”
“the "Extract from file" step crashes and halts the entire instance for a restart”
“makes PDF text extraction completely non-functional”