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Read and extract content from PDF files — text, tables, metadata, and images. Use when asked to read a PDF, extract text from a PDF, summarize a PDF, analyze a PDF document, get tables from a PDF, or check PDF metadata. Also triggers on "open this PDF", "what does this PDF say", "parse PDF", "PDF to text", or when a .pdf file path or URL is provided.

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# PDF Reader

Extract content from PDF files using `pdftotext` (Poppler) for text and
`pdfplumber` (Python) for tables and structured extraction.

## Quick Reference

| Task | Tool | Command |
|------|------|---------|
| Full text | pdftotext | `pdftotext file.pdf -` |
| Text with layout | pdftotext | `pdftotext -layout file.pdf -` |
| Specific pages | pdftotext | `pdftotext -f 3 -l 5 file.pdf -` |
| Tables | pdfplumber | `python3 scripts/extract.py tables file.pdf` |
| Metadata | pdfinfo | `pdfinfo file.pdf` |
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