[EPIC] Command-Line Interface

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Depends On: #1, #2

PDFVEC-004

Goals

• Sub-second startup time
• Unix pipeline friendly (stdin/stdout)
• Parallel processing of multiple files
• Progress indication for large jobs

Build a fast, user-friendly CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. Should support single files, directories, and stdin/stdout for pipeline integration.

Acceptance Criteria

AC-1

• Given A PDF file path
• When pdfvec extract file.pdf is run
• Then Text is printed to stdout

AC-2

• Given PDF data on stdin
• When cat file.pdf | pdfvec extract - is run
• Then Text is printed to stdout

AC-3

• Given A directory of PDFs
• When pdfvec extract --recursive dir/ is run
• Then All PDFs are processed in parallel

Technical Context

Crates: clap, indicatif, rayon

Files:

• src/bin/pdfvec.rs
• src/cli/mod.rs
• src/cli/extract.rs

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Source: epics/03-cli.json
Content Hash: 87fae0ee33336c46

Child Issues: PDFVEC-040, PDFVEC-041