pdf-processing

name	pdf-processing
description	Extract text and tables from PDF files. Use when working with PDFs or document extraction.

PDF Processing

This skill provides tools and guidance for extracting content from PDF documents.

Quick Start

Use pdfplumber to extract text:

import pdfplumber

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

Installation

Install the required dependencies:

pip install pdfplumber

Basic Text Extraction

For simple text extraction from a PDF:

import pdfplumber

def extract_text(pdf_path):
    """Extract all text from a PDF file."""
    text = []
    with pdfplumber.open(pdf_path) as pdf:
        for page in pdf.pages:
            page_text = page.extract_text()
            if page_text:
                text.append(page_text)
    return "\n\n".join(text)

Table Extraction

For extracting tables from PDFs:

import pdfplumber

def extract_tables(pdf_path):
    """Extract all tables from a PDF file."""
    tables = []
    with pdfplumber.open(pdf_path) as pdf:
        for page in pdf.pages:
            page_tables = page.extract_tables()
            tables.extend(page_tables)
    return tables

Form Filling

For filling PDF forms, see references/FORMS.md.

Advanced Table Extraction

For complex tables with merged cells, see references/TABLES.md and run scripts/extract.py.