| name | pdf-merge |
| description | Merge, split, or reorder PDF files. Use when the user mentions combining PDFs, extracting pages, or any "glue these PDFs together" request. Activates automatically in directories containing .pdf files. |
| license | KohakuTerrarium License 1.0 |
| paths | ["*.pdf","**/*.pdf"] |
pdf-merge
Use this skill for any operation on PDF files: merging, splitting,
reordering pages, or extracting a subset.
Decision tree
| Task | Tool |
|---|
| Combine 2+ PDFs into one | qpdf or pdftk |
| Extract page ranges | qpdf --pages |
| Reorder pages | qpdf --pages |
| Convert PDF to images / text | Not this skill โ |
| use a dedicated |
| tool (pdftotext, |
| pdfimages). |
Merging (preferred: qpdf)
qpdf --empty --pages in1.pdf in2.pdf in3.pdf -- merged.pdf
Fallback when qpdf is not installed:
pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf in3.pdf cat output merged.pdf
Verification (required)
Always count pages in the output and sanity-check against the sum of
the inputs:
qpdf --show-npages merged.pdf
Report the page count back to the user. If the numbers don't add up,
flag it โ a malformed input PDF silently drops pages in some
concatenation tools.
Safety
- Never overwrite the original inputs. Write to a new filename.
- If the output file already exists, ask before overwriting.
- Do not
--linearize unless the user asks for it (changes file
size noticeably).
