sample-pdf-skill

name	sample-pdf-skill
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.

PDF Processing

PDF (Portable Document Format) files are a common file format that contains text, images, and other content. To extract text from a PDF, you'll need to use a library. There are many libraries available for PDF processing, but we recommend pdfplumber because it's easy to use and handles most cases well.

Quick start

Use pdfplumber for text extraction:

import pdfplumber

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

Examples

Example 1: Extract first page

Input: report.pdf Output: plain text from page 1

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

Use this report template:

# PDF Analysis Report

## Summary
[overview]

## Extracted text
[content]

Background

PDF parsing depends on whether the document has a text layer. Scanned PDFs require OCR. pdfplumber works best on digital PDFs with embedded text.