Agent skill
Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.
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SKILL.md
PDF Skill
This skill provides comprehensive PDF manipulation capabilities. Use it when you need to work with PDF documents programmatically.
Capabilities
- Extract Content: Extract text, tables, and metadata from PDF documents
- Create PDFs: Generate new PDF documents from scratch using Python libraries like reportlab or fpdf2
- Merge/Split: Combine multiple PDFs or split a PDF into separate pages
- Form Handling: Fill in PDF forms programmatically
- Text Analysis: Analyze and process extracted text from PDFs
- Document Processing: Handle large-scale PDF processing tasks
Tools and Libraries
Common Python libraries for PDF work:
- reportlab: Create PDFs from scratch with precise control
- fpdf2: Simple PDF generation
- PyPDF2: Merge, split, and manipulate existing PDFs
- pdfplumber: Extract text and tables from PDFs
- python-pdf: General PDF utilities
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when:
- User asks to create a PDF document
- User needs to extract information from a PDF
- User wants to merge or split PDF files
- User needs to fill PDF forms programmatically
- User wants to analyze PDF content at scale
Best Practices
- Always validate that the PDF file exists before processing
- Handle errors gracefully when PDFs are corrupted or in unexpected formats
- For large PDFs, consider processing in chunks
- Use appropriate libraries based on the task (creation vs. manipulation vs. extraction)
- Preserve document structure and formatting when possible
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