[TOOL_PROFILE]
pdftotext
Poppler CLI for extracting text from PDF files.
docstextfile-viewer lang: all platform: local
[USE_WHEN]ALLOW
- ✓ Extract text from PDFs for reading, summarization, or search
[AVOID_WHEN]BLOCK
- ✕ The PDF is scanned images and needs OCR
[GUARDRAILS]MANDATORY
- ⚠ Use OCR tools for image-only PDFs when extracted text is empty or garbled.
[DETAILS]RAW_META
- Binary
- pdftotext
- Effects
- read_files, write_files
- Documentation
- https://www.mankier.com/1/pdftotext
[SIMILAR_TOOLS]03