pdf-extract

name	pdf-extract
description	Extract text and tables from PDF files using command-line tools in the shared volume at {{SHARED_VOLUME}}.
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PDF Extract

Process PDF files from the shared volume at {{SHARED_VOLUME}}.

Extract Text

# Extract all text
pdftotext {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/document.pdf {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/output/document.txt

# Extract text from specific pages
pdftotext -f 1 -l 5 {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/document.pdf {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/output/pages.txt

Get PDF Info

pdfinfo {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/document.pdf

Tips for AI Agents

• Use pdftotext (poppler-utils) for reliable text extraction.
• Use tabula-java or camelot for structured table extraction.
• OCR-scanned PDFs require tesseract for text recognition.