PDF Reader - Agno

PDFReader reads data from PDF files.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`split_on_pages`	`bool`	`True`	Create one document per page instead of one document for the whole file
`page_start_numbering_format`	`Optional[str]`	`"<start page {page_nr}>"`	Marker inserted at the start of each page. Set to an empty string to remove
`page_end_numbering_format`	`Optional[str]`	`"<end page {page_nr}>"`	Marker inserted at the end of each page. Set to an empty string to remove
`password`	`Optional[str]`	`None`	Password to unlock encrypted PDFs
`sanitize_content`	`bool`	`True`	Join fragmented lines from PDF text extraction into flowing text. Disable to preserve whitespace-sensitive content like code blocks or tables
`chunking_strategy`	`Optional[ChunkingStrategy]`	`DocumentChunking()`	Strategy used to chunk documents

PDFReader also accepts the base Reader constructor parameters.

Methods

`read()`

Reads a PDF and returns a list of documents.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`pdf`	`Optional[Union[str, Path, IO[Any]]]`	`None`	Path to the PDF file or a file-like object
`name`	`Optional[str]`	`None`	Name override for the resulting documents
`password`	`Optional[str]`	`None`	Password to unlock the PDF. Falls back to the constructor `password` when not set

`async_read()`

The async variant of read(). It accepts the same parameters.