read_pdf_text
Extract text from PDF files with customizable options like page selection, layout preservation, and text encoding using the PDFtotext MCP Server.
Instructions
Extract text content from a PDF file using pdftotext from poppler-utils
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| encoding | No | Text encoding for output (default: UTF-8) | UTF-8 |
| layout | No | Preserve original text layout formatting (default: false) | |
| page | No | Specific page number to extract (1-based indexing). If not specified, extracts all pages. | |
| path | Yes | Path to the PDF file (relative to current working directory or absolute path) |