PDF Explore (deep single-document Q&A)

Overview

Reading one paper or report thoroughly means jumping between the methods, a results figure, a supplementary table, and an appendix — repeatedly. This skill parses a PDF once into a reusable index of sections, figures, and tables, then answers many questions across the whole document without re-parsing: compare what two sections say, extract every instance of a pattern, and read values off charts/tables.

It is the single-document deep-dive counterpart to the corpus-level tools: to build a comparison table across many papers use alterlab-pdf-extract; to just convert a PDF to Markdown use alterlab-markitdown.

When to Use This Skill