# PDF Reader
Turn AI into your PDF reading expert, supporting page-by-page reading and intelligent caching.
## What Services Can AI Provide
### π Smart Reading Services
**You say**: "What's in this PDF? How many pages?"
**AI does**: Quickly reads metadata, tells you total pages, title, author
**You say**: "Read pages 1-5 for me"
**AI does**: Extracts specified page content, including text and images
### π Content Analysis Services
**You say**: "Summarize the main points of this research paper"
**AI does**: Reads relevant pages, extracts core arguments, provides structured summary
**You say**: "Find the section about data analysis"
**AI does**: Searches across pages to locate relevant content
### π Information Extraction Services
**You say**: "What charts and graphs are on page 10?"
**AI does**: Extracts images from specified page and displays them
**You say**: "Extract all contact information"
**AI does**: Reads the entire document, identifies and organizes contact details
### π Progressive Reading Services
**You say**: "Read the first 3 pages first"
**AI does**: Reads specified pages, you can continue requesting more pages
**You say**: "Continue reading the next 5 pages"
**AI does**: Reads from cache, only extracts new pages, saves time
### π― Targeted Query Services
**You say**: "Is there any mention of pricing on page 20?"
**AI does**: Reads specific page, searches for related information
**You say**: "Compare the differences between pages 5 and 15"
**AI does**: Reads both pages, identifies different content
## How to Use
**You don't need to learn any technical details, just tell AI what you want in natural language.**
### Example Conversation
```
You: I have a PDF /Users/sean/Documents/report.pdf, how many pages?
AI: Let me check... This PDF has 50 pages, titled "2024 Annual Report"
You: Read the first 5 pages
AI: Reading pages 1-5... [displays content and images]
You: Continue reading pages 6-10
AI: Reading pages 6-10... (using cache, faster)
You: Find sections about financial data
AI: Found on pages 12-15, here's the summary...
```
It's that simple. AI automatically calls PDF Reader to complete all technical operations.
## Design Highlights
### π Smart Caching
Once a page is read, it's cached. Next time you read the same page, it loads instantly from cache without re-parsing.
### π On-Demand Reading
You can read only the pages you need without loading the entire PDF, saving memory and processing time.
### πΌοΈ Image Extraction
Automatically extracts images from PDF and saves them to a specified directory for easy viewing.
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**Let AI be your PDF expert - replace operations with conversation.**