Toolkit for PDF work: extract text and tables, merge/split, rotate, watermark, encrypt, OCR scanned pages, create PDFs, and fill forms using pypdf, pdfplumber, and reportlab.
Source: Anthropic
At a glance
Verified source- Best for
- Extracting text or tables from PDFs into markdown, Excel, or dataframes
- Works with
- Claude.ai · Claude Code
- Outcome
- Merging, splitting, rotating, watermarking, or password-protecting PDFs
- Source
- anthropics/skills
01 / Understand the skill
About pdf
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 into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
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 into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images,…
Read full 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 into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
02 / Confirm the fit
Use pdf when you need to
- Extracting text or tables from PDFs into markdown, Excel, or dataframes
- Merging, splitting, rotating, watermarking, or password-protecting PDFs
- Creating new PDFs or filling PDF forms programmatically
03 / See the workflow
How pdf works
- 01Install: npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill pdf
- 02Try: Extract all tables from this quarterly report PDF into one Excel file.
- 03Get: Parsed tables exported to .xlsx or the requested PDF transformation.
Check before installing
Compatible platforms
Claude.ai · Claude Code
Best fit
Extracting text or tables from PDFs into markdown, Excel, or dataframes
Review the source instructions if the required output differs from the formats described above.
Install and use
Compatible with Claude.ai and Claude Code · Published by Anthropic
Ready to add pdf?
Use the published instructions below, then provide the required input and describe the result you need.
General instructions · Claude.ai · Claude Code
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill pdf
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