pdfparse

Description

High-quality PDF → clean Markdown conversion for text-layer (digital) academic PDFs — journal articles, book chapters, guidelines, reports. Handles single files AND large batches. Use this skill whenever the user wants PDFs turned into markdown/fulltext for reading, quoting, summarising or analysis: "şu PDF'leri markdown'a çevir / parse et", "PDF'den metin çıkar / fulltext çıkar", "makaleleri md yap", "bu 70 PDF'i işle", "PDF to markdown", "convert this PDF", "extract full text from these papers", "parse these PDFs into readable text files". Also reach for it when a batch of downloaded reference PDFs (e.g. from pdf-downloader) needs to become readable, searchable text for a literature review or book chapter. Handles double-column journal layouts with correct reading order (full left column then right, full-width figures respected), rejoins Springer-style split figure captions, names outputs by paper title (`--keep-names` keeps PDF filenames instead, for numbered reference collections), and extracts figures numbered to match the paper's own Figure N. It is the parser of choice for text-layer PDFs; do NOT route scanned/image-only PDFs here — that is image-ocr's job — and do not confuse it with pdf-downloader (fetching PDFs), paper-vault (carding papers) or opencite (search/metadata): those skills fetch or file papers, pdfparse converts local PDF files into clean markdown.

Install pdfparse

Run this in your OpenClaw agent to add pdfparse from the ClawHub registry.

Requires ClawHub registry access. Review the security analysis below before installing.

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