read-pdfs

Read, search, summarize, quote, and extract tables from existing PDF files without loading the whole file into context. Use whenever the user wants to read, summarize, search, analyze, or ask questions about a PDF — especially long, large, scanned, or image/figure-heavy ones (reports, papers, contracts, manuals, financial statements, slide decks) — including requests like "read/summarize this PDF", "what does the chart/figure on page N show", or "extract the tables", and any work involving one or more .pdf files even when the user does not say "convert". It works by converting the PDF once into a token-efficient Markdown workspace with page-anchored image placeholders, then rendering only the page(s) needed to see a figure. This reads PDFs that already exist; it does not create, generate, fill, sign, or export PDFs. Prefer it over dumping a PDF into context.