Analyze a PDF and return per-page metadata: text length, text snippet, image presence, dimensions, and orientation. Use this to identify blank pages, sideways pages, and potential duplicates. All paths must be absolute.
AI agents call get_page_analysis to retrieve information from PDF Tools without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
get_page_analysis performs read-only analysis of PDF documents. It extracts and returns metadata about pages (text length, snippets, image presence, dimensions, orientation) without modifying the PDF or triggering external operations. This is a pure information retrieval operation with minimal security risk—the worst outcome of misuse would be unauthorized access to information about PDF contents.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'Analyze a PDF and return per-page metadata' including 'text length, text snippet, image presence, dimensions, and orientation'. These are all retrieval operations with no modification or side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_page_analysis gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and PDF Tools, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_page_analysis:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_page_analysis": {}
}
}get_page_analysis is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Analyze a PDF and return per-page metadata: text length, text snippet, image presence, dimensions, and orientation. Use this to identify blank pages, sideways pages, and potential duplicates. All paths must be absolute. It is categorised as a Read tool in the PDF Tools MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the PDF Tools MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_page_analysis: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches PDF Tools. Nothing to install.
get_page_analysis is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_page_analysis rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_page_analysis. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_page_analysis is provided by the PDF Tools MCP server (open-document-alliance/pdf-tools). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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