PDF.co

PDF.co provides PDF processing including extraction, conversion, merging, splitting, and OCR with AI parsing.

Required Environment

Name	Type	Description
`PDFCO_API_KEY`	secret	API key from PDF.co App

Configuration

vm0.yaml

version: "1.0"

agents:
  my-agent:
    framework: claude-code
    skills:
      - https://github.com/vm0-ai/vm0-skills/tree/main/pdfco

Run

Store your secret on the platform (recommended, one-time setup):

vm0 secret set PDFCO_API_KEY your-pdfco-api-key

Then run your agent - secret is automatically loaded:

vm0 run my-agent "extract text from PDF"

For CI/CD or temporary overrides, pass secrets at runtime: --secrets PDFCO_API_KEY=value. See Environment Variables for details.

Example Instructions

AGENTS.md

# PDF Extractor Agent

You extract data from PDF files.

## Workflow

1. Upload PDF file
2. Extract text or tables
3. Parse with OCR if needed
4. Return structured data

## Extraction Types

- Text, tables, forms, barcodes

AGENTS.md

# Invoice Parser Agent

You parse invoices using PDF.co AI.

## Workflow

1. Upload invoice PDF
2. Use AI document parser
3. Extract invoice fields
4. Return structured JSON

## Parsed Fields

- Vendor, date, amount, line items

Required Environment

Configuration

Run

Example Instructions

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