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Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple…

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npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill pdf
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What it does

Comprehensive PDF processing with text extraction, merging, splitting, form filling, and OCR capabilities. Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple…

  • Supports core operations: merge/split PDFs, extract text and tables, rotate pages, add watermarks, encrypt/decrypt, and extract images
  • Includes Python libraries (pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab) and command-line tools (qpdf, pdftotext, pdftk) with ready-to-use code examples
  • Handles scanned PDFs via OCR using pytesseract and pdf2image for searchable text extraction
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