Best way to feed a PDF report to Claude?
AExtract text only and discard the figures
BSend each page as an image so Claude reads text + figures
CConvert it to plain prose by paragraph
DEncode it as Base64 in the system prompt
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Send each page as an image so Claude reads text + figures
Passing each page as an image lets Claude read both prose and the figures/charts in context, which is the multimodal sweet spot.
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