pdf

Process PDF files from the terminal. Reading PDF text is best done with the built-in os.fs.read_document tool (pure-JS, no install). Reach for the CLIs below only for structural operations: merge, split, page extraction, PDF↔image rendering, and OCR.

Tooling:

• qpdf — merge / split / linearize / encrypt (pure structural ops).
• poppler — pdfinfo, pdftotext, pdftoppm, pdfimages (inspect + render).
• ocrmypdf — add a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs (optional).

Setup health check (run first, every session)

Verify with one solo step:

[{ "tool": "os.shell.run", "args": { "cmd": "pdfinfo", "args": ["-v"] } }]