local-paper-index
Local PDF Index Builder
Build a searchable Asta document index from a collection of local PDF files. Each PDF is converted to markdown, split into ~2000-character chunks, and written as documents to an asta-documents YAML index — enabling semantic search across the full text of the collection.
Installation
This skill requires the asta CLI:
# Install/reinstall at the correct version
PLUGIN_VERSION=0.17.0
if [ "$(asta --version 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+')" != "$PLUGIN_VERSION" ]; then
uv tool install --force git+https://github.com/allenai/asta-plugins.git@v$PLUGIN_VERSION
fi
Prerequisites: Python 3.11+ and uv package manager
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