This skill provides a reliable fallback mechanism for extracting text from PDF documents. Standard file reading tools often fail on PDFs because they are binary formats, resulting in garbled text, null bytes, or base64 strings. This skill leverages the pdftotext command-line utility to ensure clean, layout-preserved text extraction.
Use this skill whenever a standard read_file operation on a PDF returns binary data, null bytes (\x00), or is otherwise unreadable.
pdftotext -layout -nopgbrk command to capture clean output from stdout.Designed for any agent with shell access (run_shell) running in a Linux environment where poppler-utils is installed (e.g., Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex).
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