The package works in the same sort of way as pst-pdf , processing PostScript graphics with psfrag labels within documents running with pdfLaTeX.

Pstool ensures that each version of each graphic is compiled once only (the graphic is (re-)compiled only if it has changed since the previous compilation of the document). This drastically speeds up the running of the package in the typical case (though the first run of any document is inevitably just as slow as with any similar package).