pdf

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