# PDF Reader

> PDF Reader — 3351163616-pdf-reader. Use this tool when you need to extract text and metadata from PDF documents, whether they are text-based or scanned, and perform full-text searches with regex capabilities. It solves problems in document processing pipelines, content analysis systems, and AI-assisted document review workflows by providing intelligent type detection and multilingual document recognition. It takes PDF documents as input and outputs extracted text, metadata, and search results, making it ideal for automating document analysis tasks.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/3351163616-pdf-reader  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/3351163616-pdf-reader

## Description

Processes PDF documents with intelligent type detection, extracting text from both text-based and scanned documents. Integrates pdf-parse, pdf-lib, and pdf-to-png-converter with Baidu OCR API for multilingual document recognition. Provides text extraction with page range support, full-text search with regex capabilities, metadata extraction, and automatic fallback from text extraction to OCR when needed. Useful for document processing pipelines, content analysis systems, and AI-assisted document review workflows.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.85
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** devops-ci
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/3351163616-pdf-reader)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/3351163616/mcp_pdf_reader>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "3351163616-pdf-reader"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/3351163616-pdf-reader` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/3351163616-pdf-reader/pull`

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