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Runnable recipes for PDF to Markdown, chunking, RAG and document processing with PyMuPDF. Open any recipe in Colab or download the notebook.

AICitationsPDFGrounding

Cite Claude Answers

Sends a PDF to Claude with citations enabled, locates each cited passage on the page with PyMuPDF, highlights it, and exports coordinates for a web viewer.

Intermediate · 3 min read
AICitationsPDFGrounding

Ask a PDF and Highlight the Evidence

Answer questions from a PDF with page citations, verify each quoted passage, and create a copy with the evidence highlighted using PyMuPDF.

Intermediate · 7 min read
EmailPDFPyMuPDF

Convert an email to a PDF

Turn an email into a PDF document using PyMuPDF.

Intermediate · 4 min read
MarkdownRAGChunking

Convert a PDF to Markdown for RAG

Turn a PDF into structured Markdown and token-sized chunks ready for embedding, using PyMuPDF locally with no GPU or API key.

Beginner · 2 min read
ClaudeCitationsPDF

PDF Highlighting with Citations

Use Claude to analyze a PDF and highlight the passages that support its answers.

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