PDF Processing Guide
Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.
Overview
This guide covers essential PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features, JavaScript libraries, and detailed examples, see reference.md. If you need to fill out a PDF form, read forms.md and follow its instructions.
Core features
Task
Best Tool
Merge PDFs
pypdf
Split PDFs
pypdf
Extract text
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Extract tables
pdfplumber
Create PDFs
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Command line merge
qpdf
OCR scanned PDFs
pytesseract
Target users
Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and other AI agent users who want a reusable workflow for this task.
How to use
Install or copy the PDF Processing Guide skill into your agent's skills directory, then ask the agent for a task that matches the skill description so it can load the detailed SKILL.md workflow.
Effect review
Best for repeatable tasks where a documented workflow helps an AI agent produce more consistent results than an ad hoc prompt.
Frequently asked questions
What is PDF Processing Guide?
Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.
How do I use PDF Processing Guide?
Install or copy the PDF Processing Guide skill into your agent's skills directory, then ask the agent for a task that matches the skill description so it can load the detailed SKILL.md workflow.
Where does this skill come from?
It is synced from ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, a curated directory of Claude Skills and agent workflow packages.
Quick install
Copy document-skills/pdf/SKILL.md into your Claude/Codex skills directory, then restart the agent session.Tags
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