pdf

name	pdf
description	Process PDF files - extract text, create PDFs, merge documents. Use when user asks to read PDF, create PDF, or work with PDF files.

PDF Processing Skill

You now have expertise in PDF manipulation. Follow these workflows:

Reading PDFs

Option 1: Quick text extraction (preferred)

pdftotext input.pdf -
pdftotext input.pdf output.txt

Creating PDFs

Option 1: From Markdown

pandoc input.md -o output.pdf

Option 2: Programmatically

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
c = canvas.Canvas("output.pdf")
c.drawString(100, 750, "Hello, PDF!")
c.save()

Merging PDFs

import fitz
result = fitz.open()
for pdf_path in ["file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"]:
    doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
    result.insert_pdf(doc)
result.save("merged.pdf")

Best Practices

1. Check tool availability first
2. Handle encoding issues
3. Large PDFs page-by-page
4. OCR for scanned PDFs if needed