pdf-to-markdown-docling

pdf-to-markdown-docling is a command for Claude Code from tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router. It costs 45 tokens per session (285 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A local PDF-to-Markdown converter using Docling, a document-processing tool that preserves reading order and table structure. It returns text and does not save it automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert a local PDF into Markdown, then pass the result to a file-writing or wiki-ingestion tool; images are represented as placeholders.
Why use it?
It handles complex tables and layouts more accurately than a fast basic converter, though it uses substantially more processing time and requires an optional installation.

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 Use it to convert a local PDF into Markdown, then pass the result to a file-writing or wiki-ingestion tool; images are represented as placeholders.

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

Getting it into your agent

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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.

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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 285 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 $0.00045 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00028

Measured 11d ago against content hash f9443950d055, 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-docling 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-docling.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the pdf_to_markdown_docling 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.

Docling reconstructs table structure and reading order that MarkItDown's pdfminer.six backend loses, at ~10x the CPU cost. It is an opt-in extra: it only works if the router was installed with OBSIDIAN_ROUTER_ENABLE_DOCLING=1 (or npm run install-docling was run afterwards). If Docling is not installed, the tool returns an actionable install hint — fall back to /obsidian-router:pdf-to-markdown (MarkItDown). For fast/simple PDFs or non-PDF office files, prefer /obsidian-router:pdf-to-markdown.

Figures come back as <!-- image --> placeholders (Docling runs with --image-export-mode placeholder), not embedded images — the output stays text-only and lightweight. Table structure and reading order are still reconstructed.

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 · 14 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A f9443950d055

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pdf-to-markdown-docling is a command published in the GitHub repository tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 285 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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