name: pdf description: Use this skill whenever PDF files are created, read, merged, split, transformed, OCR-processed, or data-extracted.
PDF Skill (Anthropic Official Source)
Source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/pdf
Use this skill whenever PDF artifacts are involved.
Typical Triggers
- "extract text/tables from this PDF"
- "merge or split PDFs"
- "rotate or watermark pages"
- "OCR this scanned document"
Working Rules
- Prefer reproducible scripted operations.
- Preserve page order and metadata unless explicitly changed.
- Validate output page count and extraction quality after transforms.
- Record command-level provenance for manuscript claims.
Quick Commands
from pypdf import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
print(len(reader.pages))