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Introduce support for PDFs

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Description

### Feature request

The idea (discussed in the Discord server with @lhoestq ) is to have a Pdf type like Image/Audio/Video. For example [Video](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/main/src/datasets/features/video.py) was recently added and contains how to decode a video file encoded in a dictionary like {"path": ..., "bytes": ...} as a VideoReader using decord. We want to do the same with pdf and get a [pypdfium2.PdfDocument](https://pypdfium2.readthedocs.io/en/stable/_modules/pypdfium2/_helpers/document.html#PdfDocument).

### Motivation

In many cases PDFs contain very valuable information beyond text (e.g. images, figures). Support for PDFs would help create datasets where all the information is preserved.

### Your contribution

I can start the implementation of the Pdf type :)

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