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PDF Reader Tool

Usage​

Portia offers both open source tools as well as a cloud-hosted library of tools to save you development time. You can dig into the specs of those tools in our open source repo (SDK repo ↗).

You can import our open source tools into your project using from portia.open_source_tools.registry import open_source_tool_registry and load them into an InMemoryToolRegistry object. You can also combine their use with cloud or custom tools as explained in the docs (Add custom tools ↗).

Tool details​

Tool ID: pdf_reader_tool

Tool description: Read a PDF file and extract its text content using Mistral OCR

Usage notes:

You must have a MistralAI API key set in the environment variable MISTRAL_API_KEY to use this tool.

Args schema:

{
  "description": "Input for PDFReaderTool.",
  "properties": {
    "file_path": {
      "description": "The path to the PDF file to be read.",
      "title": "File Path",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "file_path"
  ],
  "title": "PDFReaderToolSchema",
  "type": "object"
}

Output schema:

('str', 'The extracted text content from the PDF file.')