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claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [BUG] "PDF too large" error incorrectly triggered on plain text (.txt) files in VS Code extension [1 participants]

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Error Message

The error message "PDF too large (max 100 pages, 20MB). Try reading the file a different way (e.g., extract text with pdftotext)" is being incorrectly triggered when uploading or referencing plain text files. The file in question was a .txt file converted from a PDF using pdftotext, not a PDF itself.

Error Messages/Logs

Also attempted referencing the file by absolute path in the prompt — same error Also attempted renaming to adc_burst.txt and re-uploading — same error

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PDF too large (max 100 pages, 20MB). Try reading the file a different way (e.g., extract text with pdftotext).
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What's Wrong?

The error message "PDF too large (max 100 pages, 20MB). Try reading the file a different way (e.g., extract text with pdftotext)" is being incorrectly triggered when uploading or referencing plain text files. The file in question was a .txt file converted from a PDF using pdftotext, not a PDF itself.

What Should Happen?

It should read the txt file uploaded and extract data

Error Messages/Logs

PDF too large (max 100 pages, 20MB). Try reading the file a different way (e.g., extract text with pdftotext).

Steps to Reproduce

Take a PDF datasheet and extract a section using pdftk:

pdftk input.pdf cat 405-419 output extract.pdf

Convert to text using pdftotext:

pdftotext extract.pdf extract.txt

Upload extract.txt to Claude Code in VS Code and submit a prompt referencing it Also attempted referencing the file by absolute path in the prompt — same error Also attempted renaming to adc_burst.txt and re-uploading — same error

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Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

I don't know

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Claude Code Version

2.1.138

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Ubuntu/Debian Linux

Terminal/Shell

VS Code integrated terminal

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