Read

PDFs

Read PDFs as text, with no extra setup.

When a URL returns a PDF, Frankensurf extracts its text with pypdf. Your agent gets text, not bytes.

Usage

page = await web.read("https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf")

frankensurf read https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf

{ "tool": "read", "arguments": { "url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf" } }

{
  "url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf",
  "text": "Dummy PDF file",
  "content_type": "application/pdf; qs=0.001",
  "structured": { "format": "pdf", "pages": 1 },
  "receipt": { "method": "http", "latency_ms": 414 }
}

Options

Option	Default	Description
`pdf_max_pages`	`50`	Most pages to extract.
`max_bytes`	40 MB	Largest file accepted.