nano-pdf

Edit or create PDFs with natural-language instructions using the nano-pdf CLI. Use when asked to make a PDF, edit a PDF, add pages, change text in a PDF, or convert content to PDF format.

nano-pdf

Use nano-pdf to apply edits to a specific page in a PDF using a natural-language instruction.

Quick Start

nano-pdf edit deck.pdf 1 "Change the title to 'Q3 Results' and fix the typo in the subtitle"

Creating a New PDF

nano-pdf create output.pdf "Create a one-page summary of quarterly results with a header, bullet points, and a footer"

Usage in SwarmClaw

When a user asks to create or edit a PDF:

  1. Check if nano-pdf is installed: which nano-pdf
  2. If not installed, install via uv tool install nano-pdf or pip install nano-pdf
  3. Run the appropriate command
  4. Report the output file path to the user

Notes

  • Page numbers are 0-based or 1-based depending on the tool's version; if the result looks off by one, retry with the other.
  • Always sanity-check the output PDF before reporting success.
  • For multi-page edits, run separate commands per page.