pdf-to-markdown

pdf-to-markdown is a command for Claude Code from tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router. It costs 47 tokens per session (186 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that extracts text from a local PDF and returns it as Markdown, a plain-text format for structured notes and documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Turning PDFs into Markdown for later saving or sending to another note-taking or document workflow.
Why use it?
It provides a quick way to reuse PDF text without copying it by hand, while warning that complex tables and columns may not be preserved accurately.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the obsidian-router plugin — 49 skills, 54 commands, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Turning PDFs into Markdown for later saving or sending to another note-taking or document workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router/pdf-to-markdown
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install obsidian-router, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 54 commands, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 186 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00047 $0.00186
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00093
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00019

Measured 11d ago against content hash cb349339646e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-to-markdown scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/pdf-to-markdown.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the pdf_to_markdown MCP tool on the given file path.

Required argument: filepath (absolute path to the PDF).

Returns markdown text only — it does NOT write to any vault. To persist, chain with write_file, or hand off to wiki-ingest.

MarkItDown is fast (~12s / 100 pages) but its PDF backend (pdfminer.six) extracts the text stream with no layout or table analysis. For PDFs with complex tables or multi-column layouts, use /obsidian-router:pdf-to-markdown-docling instead (higher fidelity, ~10x slower, requires the opt-in Docling install).

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 12 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A cb349339646e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-to-markdown is a command published in the GitHub repository tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 186 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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