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pdf-to-text

Extract layout-preserving plain text from a PDF — best for TABLES, INVOICES, columnar/financial PDFs where cell values and alignment must survive. Parse each PDF ONCE to a file. To find a specific fact, prefer a bounded `grep -n -i -C2 "term" file | head`. Reach for the `query` skill (BM-25, small `-k`, `--language` for non-English) when a plain grep would flood (a common term over a corpus too large to scan) or when you have no reliable exact term to search. Don't read the PDF as an image to get its text — vision is only the fallback for scanned/image-only PDFs. Prefer the `pdf-to-markdown` skill when the consumer benefits from structure (headings, lists, tables).