PDF Search

Search within a PDF (pdf-search)

Search within a PDF

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Management. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Find every mention of a term/phrase with its source page.

Operations

• exact/phrase search
• keyword search
• regex search
• single-page search
• whole-document mention scan (streamed)
• source page in every result

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.search:search_document / find_mentions_all

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: PyMuPDF text layer streaming
• Fallback: persisted index (large docs)

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

searched; hits carry page

Related skills

pdf-index, pdf-chunk, pdf-read, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Find every mention of 'quantum' in this 5,000 page book."
• "Show me where the phrase 'terms of service' appears."

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.