# PDF Files

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.\
**The Pdf File module decodes the base64-encoded data from the PDF document and then loads the PDF content.**\
If a textSplitter is provided, it uses it to split the text content.

## Inputs

**Text Splitter** (optional)\
**PDF File**\
**Usage**\
One Document per Page OR One Document per File\\

## Output

loads PDF content


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