Use PDF with ChatGPT and Claude

• MacWorks

  Including OCR of scanned pages (English and Korean).

• WindowsWorks

  PDFs with text; scanned pages are not OCR'd.

• LinuxWorks

  PDFs with text; scanned pages are not OCR'd.

“Find last month's invoice PDFs and tell me the total”
“Merge the PDFs in Scans into one file in date order”
“What does section 4 of lease.pdf say about notice periods?”

BCD reads PDF text page by page (on a Mac it also reads scanned pages with OCR). It writes new PDFs from text or Markdown, and builds new PDFs from pages of others, so it can merge, split, reorder and add pages; the originals are kept.

• OCR of scanned pages is Mac only and covers English and Korean.
• There is no tool for filling PDF form fields.

Do I need PDF installed?
No extra software.

Does it work on Windows and Linux?
Mac: works, Windows: works, Linux: works. Including OCR of scanned pages (English and Korean). PDFs with text; scanned pages are not OCR'd.

Which AI apps can do this?
ChatGPT (BCD is in its plugin directory), Claude (as a custom connector) and other apps that support MCP connectors, including Codex. They all use the same computer with the same permissions.

Is it safe?
A new computer starts read-only. Writing files, running commands and controlling apps are turned on per computer, and BCD reaches only the folders you allow.

Try it on your computer

One computer is free, with 20,000 tool calls a month and no card. New accounts get Personal (3 computers) free for the first month.