IIRC Claude reads PDFs natively, or as images. One page is 3k tokens IIRC, so you can get 100 pages into context and still have plenty of space to reason or wor

IIRC Claude reads PDFs natively, or as images. One page is 3k tokens IIRC, so you can get 100 pages into context and still have plenty of space to reason or work around that. Only for longer and text-specific documents it uses pdftotext, but that's optional.