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Ask HN: How to help Claude find financials in large PDF from MCP tool

A developer is creating an MCP tool for Claude to search company registries, but faces challenges with large PDF files up to 50MB. The tool returns original PDFs containing shareholder information, but Claude cannot process such large files even though financial data is only on a few pages.

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