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Poppler · Extract PDF text, pdf metadata, and document search from the terminal.

$ brew install poppler
One-liner to try
$ pdftotext document.pdf -

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Copy into an agent

A markdown-ready setup brief with install, verify, safe starting commands, and guardrails for AI agents.

Open .mdJSON
Readiness
Usable with guardrails · 60/100
Verify
pdftotext -v
Agent URL
/cli/poppler/agent.md

Quick reference

Install
brew install poppler
Verify
pdftotext -v
First command
pdftotext document.pdf -
Machine JSON
/cli/poppler.json

About

Extract PDF text, pdf metadata, and document search from the terminal. Built by Poppler. Runs entirely on your machine.

Example workflow

1. pdftotext document.pdf -

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