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Manipulate PDF files — extract text, count pages, render thumbnails, merge or split documents. Use for PDF-specific operations that don't fit `markdown-converter` (general read) or `pandic-office` (write from markdown).

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# pdf — PDF manipulation toolkit

The gateway image ships:
- `pdftotext`, `pdftoppm`, `pdfinfo` from `poppler-utils` (apt)
- `pypdf` (Python) for programmatic merge / split / metadata edits

## Common operations

### Extract text from a PDF

```bash
pdftotext /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.pdf /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.txt
# Or stream to stdout:
pdftotext /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.pdf -