add-pdf-reader

To extract text from PDF attachments in WhatsApp, you can use the add-pdf-reader skill to automate downloading the file and running the pdftotext CLI to convert the content into readable text.

Yes, pdftotext can read PDFs from URLs and local files by fetching remote documents and processing workspace files to extract searchable text for NanoClaw agents.

You can add PDF reading capabilities to a NanoClaw agent by enabling the add-pdf-reader skill, which integrates the pdftotext CLI to automatically extract and return text from provided documents.

The best way to extract text from PDFs in a group workspace is using the add-pdf-reader skill, which handles local files and WhatsApp attachments by running pdfinfo for verification and pdftotext for extraction.

The add-pdf-reader skill does not require additional components, as it operates independently using the pdftotext CLI to fetch, verify, and extract text from PDFs across supported inputs.

PDF text extraction may return empty content if the document is image-based or corrupted, as the skill relies on the pdftotext CLI to parse text layers rather than performing OCR on scanned images.