What problem does it solve?
Extracting structured data from PDFs for RAG pipelines or LLM training is painful: tables break, reading order gets scrambled, and scanned pages return nothing. This Skill wraps OpenDataLoader PDF, a benchmark-leading parser, to convert PDFs into clean Markdown, JSON with bounding boxes, or HTML.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Multi-format extraction: Convert PDFs to Markdown, JSON (with per-element bounding box coordinates), or HTML for downstream chunking and rendering.
- Hybrid AI mode: Handle complex tables, scanned documents via OCR, and math formulas using the optional hybrid mode with docling-fast.
- Source traceability: Every extracted element carries bbox coordinates, so you can trace any paragraph or table back to its exact page position.
- Use Case: Batch-convert a folder of academic PDFs into JSON with bounding boxes, then feed the structured output into a RAG indexing pipeline with page-level citations.
Quick Start
Install opendataloader-pdf with pip and ask the agent to convert a PDF file into Markdown and JSON output in a chosen directory.