PDF support: embedded software

Feature Requests
1

Previously saw a thread about this but can’t find it anymore.

I am an embedded software engineer, and I build and fix things from specifications written in PDFs all the time. Simply using the text from the PDF (ex. manually extracting) works sometimes, but misses some of the important bits (ex. timing diagrams) that I know the Claude API can handle.

This request is for long PDF support in at least the Chat mode. Using the Claude webui is limited context window wise, and RAG tooling is complex and a time-sink to maintain.

The use case here is device drivers in embedded Linux, and bare-metal programming for specific devices - microcontroller / FPGA, which independently have mountains of specs split into technical reference manuals, programming guides, user guides, datasheets, etc (if you’ve ever programmed a TI chip, you know).

Adding PDF support to at least the Chat mode would significantly improve my current workflow, and speed of building these things.

I am a big fan of Cursor, thanks for your work,
H.

2

Bumping this again as I’ve started using the Notepad feature. It works well for the use case described above - large, multi-faceted problems in things like Linux kernel subsystems, device interaction - when the documentation is pure text. I have found uploading images (especially when working in WSL) unreliable, and would appreciate a better way for this to be parse-able as documentation.

Thanks,
H.