PDF Processing Module

Extracts text and tables from PDF documents and performs OCR if necessary.

Usage

1. Open the Command Palette with Cmd+Shift+P
2. Select "PDF"
3. Enter the PDF file path
4. Click "Extract"
5. Check results and click "Save to Vault"

Features

Text Extraction

Extracts text from PDFs while maintaining layout as much as possible.

Table Extraction

Detects tables within the PDF and converts them to Markdown tables.

OCR (Optional)

Uses Tesseract OCR to extract text from scanned PDFs.

Metadata Extraction

• Title
• Author
• Subject
• Creator App

Note Template

You can customize the PDF template in Settings:

# {{title}}

- **Source**: {{path}}
- **Pages**: {{pages}}
- **Author**: {{author}}

---

{{content}}

{{#tables}}
## Table {{index}}
{{content}}
{{/tables}}

OCR Setup

To use OCR, you must install Tesseract:

# macOS
brew install tesseract tesseract-lang

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-kor

# Windows
# Download from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

Supported Languages:

• English (eng)
• Korean (kor)
• Japanese (jpn)
• Simplified Chinese (chi_sim)

Tips

• Better scan quality results in higher OCR accuracy
• Table extraction accuracy may decrease for complex tables
• Large PDF files may take longer to process
• Password-protected PDFs are not supported