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PDF layout extract

Give agents page geometry, not just a flat text dump — so tables, columns, and citations stay grounded.

What it does

Call this tool (id: pdf_layout_extract) to extract PDF text with spatial layout from base64. Returns per-page lines and words with bounding boxes (x,y,width,height + yFromTop).

Example use cases

Citation grounding with page + bbox hits.
Table and column reconstruction before CSV export.
Routing scanned pages via pdf_complexity, then layout extract on text pages.

How it works in Toolporten

Allowlist pdf_complexity → pdf_layout_extract / pdf_to_markdown → pdf_page_screenshot for vision. Keep the toolbox under a handful of PDF tools.

MCP call example

{
  "name": "pdf_layout_extract",
  "arguments": {
    "base64": "<base64-pdf>",
    "maxPages": 10
  }
}

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