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PDF Analysis Tool
PDF Analysis Tool
Process PDFs with AI analysis. Extract text, generate summaries, and identify key insights.
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Problems solved
Technical challenges this implementation handles out of the box.
- Analyze uploaded PDF files with multimodal streamText
- Send PDF bytes to the model as application/pdf media
- Reject oversized uploads before analysis begins
Use cases
Products and workflows this pattern is designed to support.
- PDF document analysis tools
- Contract and policy summarizers
- Research paper quick-read assistants
- Upload-and-analyze document demos
Setup
Requirements, wiring steps, and what this pattern adds to your project.
Getting started
Pick how you want to pull this pattern in. Then wire env vars and routes the same way.
- 1
Install from the preview toolbar
Copy the install command above and run it in your project — Pro patterns include a short-lived token.
- 2
Add environment variables to .env.local
OPENAI_API_KEY
- 3
Customize the agent and tool files
Adapt prompts, tools, and stop conditions for your product — Copy for AI in the toolbar helps seed that work.
- 4
Run your dev server and open the pattern route
Install dependencies if needed, then start the app and verify responses.
Environment variables
OPENAI_API_KEYGet key
Capabilities
AI SDK APIs
streamTextProviders
OpenAI
Files added
4 filesapp/page.tsxapp/layout.tsxhooks/use-file-drop.tsxREADME.md
Dependencies
11 totalnpm packages
6AISDKUpstashlucide-reactmotionNext.jsReact
Registry components
buttoncardinputlabeltextarea
Critical files
lib/actions.tsCore AI PDF analysis pipeline: uses streamText with gateway, sends PDF as base64-encoded file content with mediaType in a multimodal message. Shows the pattern for PDF ingestion with AI SDK.
Requirements
- Complexity
- Intermediate
- Setup time
- ~5 minutes
- Node
- >=18.0.0
