pdf

name	pdf
description	Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. Use when the user needs to process or generate PDF files.
license	Apache-2.0
metadata	{"author":"Agentman","version":"1.0"}
compatibility	Requires pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab, and poppler-utils.

PDF Skill

Toolkit for advanced PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools.

Use Cases

1. Extraction: Extract text, tables, and images from PDFs.
2. Creation: Generate professional PDFs from scratch.
3. Manipulation: Merge multiple PDFs, split pages, or rotate documents.
4. Forms: Fill in PDF forms programmatically.
5. OCR: Extract text from scanned documents (requires pytesseract).

Python Operations

Merge PDFs

from pypdf import PdfWriter, PdfReader
writer = PdfWriter()
for f in ["1.pdf", "2.pdf"]:
    writer.add_page(PdfReader(f).pages[0])
with open("merged.pdf", "wb") as out:
    writer.write(out)

Extract Tables (pdfplumber)

import pdfplumber
with pdfplumber.open("doc.pdf") as pdf:
    table = pdf.pages[0].extract_table()

Create PDF (reportlab)

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
c = canvas.Canvas("hello.pdf")
c.drawString(100, 750, "Hello World")
c.save()

CLI Tools

• pdftotext: pdftotext input.pdf output.txt
• qpdf: qpdf --empty --pages f1.pdf f2.pdf -- merged.pdf

Best Practices

• Use pypdf for structure (merge/split).
• Use pdfplumber for content extraction (text/tables).
• Use reportlab for generation.