pdf

name	pdf
description	Use this skill whenever PDF files are created, read, merged, split, transformed, OCR-processed, or data-extracted.

PDF Skill (Anthropic Official Source)

Source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/pdf

Use this skill whenever PDF artifacts are involved.

Typical Triggers

• "extract text/tables from this PDF"
• "merge or split PDFs"
• "rotate or watermark pages"
• "OCR this scanned document"

Working Rules

1. Prefer reproducible scripted operations.
2. Preserve page order and metadata unless explicitly changed.
3. Validate output page count and extraction quality after transforms.
4. Record command-level provenance for manuscript claims.

Quick Commands

from pypdf import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
print(len(reader.pages))