alterlab-pdf-explore
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Explore a single PDF in depth — parse it once, then answer questions across its sections, figures, tables, and appendices — comparing methods across sections, extracting every instance of a pattern within the document, and reading values off its charts and tables. Use when interrogating one paper or report end-to-end, pulling every occurrence of something inside a document, or reading data from a figure/table in a PDF, serving the literature-review and paper-review pipeline. To build a comparison table across MANY papers prefer alterlab-pdf-extract; to simply convert a PDF to Markdown prefer alterlab-markitdown; for reference/citation management prefer alterlab-pyzotero. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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