pdf-reader

To extract text from a PDF file, the tool uses Poppler utilities like pdftotext to output plain text directly to stdout. This enables quick review and feeds extracted content into downstream data pipelines or AI prompts.

Yes, extracting text from PDFs supports optional layout preservation to maintain tables and columns. This ensures the original formatting remains intact in the plain text output for accurate downstream processing.

Retrieving metadata from a PDF document uses the pdfinfo utility to fetch details like title, author, and page count. This also provides size estimation for quick validation before performing full text extraction.

Yes, the tool works with remote PDFs by downloading them via curl and processes WhatsApp attachments saved in the attachments/ directory. It ensures consistent text extraction across local files, URLs, and messaging app attachments.

Processing multiple PDF documents utilizes a recursive directory search to locate and process batches of files. This approach handles bulk text extraction efficiently, including attachments exported from messaging applications.

Yes, extracting text from PDFs relies on the Poppler tools suite, specifically pdftotext and pdfinfo, along with curl for downloading remote files. Standard Unix utilities are also used for file handling and output processing.