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Why bother?
When you hand Claude a PDF, it doesn't just read the words. It renders a picture of every single page and reads that too - so a 40-page lookbook costs you a chunk of your context window before Claude has understood a thing. That's why long PDFs feel slow, get truncated, or make Claude "forget" the top of the document.
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