How to parse lots of PDFs and more into markdown, with Laravel

You want to ask questions about your own documents from a Laravel app. The AI SDK that shipped with Laravel 13 handles most of it: embeddings, vector queries, agents. What it doesn't handle is the part that comes first, where a user hands you a 40-page scanned PDF and you need clean text out of it. That's the step this tutorial covers properly. The rest of the pipeline is here too, end to end: upload, parse, chunk, embed, search, answer. What we're building Users upload documents. W