| name | pdf |
| description | Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs, splitting PDFs, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs. |
PDF Processing Skill
Overview
This skill handles PDF operations including reading/extracting text/tables, merging, splitting, rotating, watermarking, creating, form filling, encrypting/decrypting, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs.
Quick Start
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
print(f"Pages: {len(reader.pages)}")
text = ""
for page in reader.pages:
text += page.extract_text()
Libraries
- pypdf: merge, split, metadata extraction, rotation
- pdfplumber: text extraction with layout preservation and table extraction
- reportlab: creates PDFs using Canvas or Platypus
Command-Line Tools
pdftotext (poppler-utils), qpdf, pdftk
Quick Reference Table
| Task | Tool |
|---|
| Merge | pypdf |
| Split | pypdf |
| Extract text | pdfplumber |
| Extract tables | pdfplumber |
| Create | reportlab |
| OCR | pytesseract |
| Fill forms | pdf-lib/pypdf |
