Your VLM answers single-image questions well but falls apart on an 80-page PDF. How do you fix it?

A VLM that reads one page perfectly can still fail an 80-page contract, and the reason is arithmetic before it is model quality. The signal is picking the right architecture and knowing what per-page processing silently loses. Here is the answer.

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