llama-scan: PDF to Text Conversion with Ollama
2025-08-18
llama-scan is a tool that leverages Ollama to convert PDFs to text files locally, eliminating token costs. It utilizes Ollama's latest multimodal models, enabling detailed text descriptions of images and diagrams. Installation is straightforward: install Ollama and then llama-scan using pip or uv. Features include custom output directories, model selection, options to keep intermediate image files, adjustable image width, and specifying page ranges for efficient PDF text extraction.
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