pdf-processing

name	pdf-processing
description	Extract text and tables from PDF files, fill forms, merge documents, and convert PDFs to other formats. Use when working with PDF files or when the user mentions PDFs, forms, document extraction, or portable document format. Use when the user mentions PDF, forms, extraction, merge, split, or convert. Use when user asks about pdfplumber, PyMuPDF, or report generation from PDFs.

PDF Processing

Rules

• Use pdfplumber for text and table extraction on digital PDFs.
• Use pytesseract + pdf2image only when the PDF is scanned (no text layer).
• Always preserve page numbers when quoting extracted text.
• For multi-page merge, use pypdf.PdfMerger and validate output page count.

Quick start

import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("file.pdf") as pdf:
    text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text()

Examples

Example 1: Extract first page

import pdfplumber
with pdfplumber.open("report.pdf") as pdf:
    print(pdf.pages[0].extract_text())

Example 2: Extract tables

import pdfplumber
with pdfplumber.open("report.pdf") as pdf:
    tables = pdf.pages[0].extract_tables()

Template

# PDF Analysis Report

## Summary
[overview]

## Extracted text
[content]

Background

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a fixed-layout format. Digital PDFs embed a text layer; scanned PDFs require OCR. pdfplumber handles embedded text reliably; OCR adds latency and error risk on low-quality scans.