Agent skill

oma-pdf

Convert PDF files to Markdown using opendataloader-pdf. Extracts text, tables, headings, lists, and images with correct reading order. Use for PDF parsing, PDF to Markdown conversion, document extraction, and AI-ready data preparation.

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npx add-skill https://github.com/first-fluke/oh-my-agent/tree/main/.agents/skills/oma-pdf

SKILL.md

PDF Skill - PDF to Markdown Conversion

When to use

  • Converting PDF documents to Markdown for LLM context or RAG
  • Extracting structured content (tables, headings, lists) from PDFs
  • Preparing PDF data for AI consumption
  • User says "convert this PDF", "parse PDF", "PDF to markdown", "read this PDF"

When NOT to use

  • Generating or creating PDFs -> use appropriate document tools
  • Editing existing PDFs -> out of scope
  • Simple file reading of already-text files -> use Read tool directly

Core Rules

  1. Use uvx opendataloader-pdf to run — no installation required
  2. Default output format is Markdown
  3. If no output directory specified, output to the same directory as the input PDF
  4. Preserve document structure: headings, tables, lists, images
  5. For scanned PDFs, use hybrid mode with OCR
  6. Always run uvx mdformat on the output to normalize Markdown formatting
  7. Validate the output Markdown is readable and well-structured
  8. Report any conversion issues (missing tables, garbled text) to the user

How to Execute

Follow resources/execution-protocol.md step by step.

Quick Reference

Basic conversion (single file)

bash
uvx opendataloader-pdf input.pdf

Specify output directory

bash
uvx opendataloader-pdf input.pdf --output-dir ./output/

Multiple files or folder

bash
uvx opendataloader-pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf folder/

With OCR (scanned PDFs)

Requires hybrid mode server:

bash
uvx opendataloader-pdf-hybrid --port 5002 --force-ocr --ocr-lang "ko,en"
uvx opendataloader-pdf --hybrid docling-fast input.pdf

With image extraction (embedded base64)

bash
uvx opendataloader-pdf input.pdf --image-output embedded --image-format png

With Tagged PDF structure

bash
uvx opendataloader-pdf input.pdf --use-struct-tree

Output Formats

Format Flag Use case
Markdown --format markdown Default. Clean text for LLM/RAG
JSON --format json Structured data with bounding boxes
HTML --format html Web display
Text --format text Plain text extraction
Combined --format markdown,json Multiple formats at once

Configuration

Project-specific settings: config/pdf-config.yaml

Troubleshooting

Issue Solution
Garbled text in output Try --use-struct-tree for Tagged PDFs
Scanned PDF (no text layer) Use hybrid mode with --force-ocr
Tables not extracted properly Use hybrid mode for complex/borderless tables
Non-English PDF Add --ocr-lang with appropriate language codes
Large PDF (100+ pages) Process in page ranges or use batch mode
Formula not extracted Use hybrid mode with --enrich-formula

References

  • Execution steps: resources/execution-protocol.md
  • Configuration: config/pdf-config.yaml
  • Context loading: ../_shared/core/context-loading.md
  • Quality principles: ../_shared/core/quality-principles.md

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