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PDF Processing Toolkit

A comprehensive PDF skill for extracting text and tables, creating PDFs, merging/splitting, watermarking, and filling forms.

Docs & OfficeIntermediate★ 165⑂ 11AI score 10/10Last updated: Sep 13, 2026

What it does

  • Text & table extraction: pdfplumber recipes for layout-preserving text and tables, exported to pandas/Excel
  • Document manipulation: pypdf for merge, split, rotate, metadata, watermarks, and encryption
  • PDF creation: reportlab Canvas and Platypus flows for multi-page reports
  • CLI recipes: pdftotext, qpdf, pdftk, pdfimages one-liners
  • Deep-dive references: complex tables (tables.md), scanned-doc OCR (ocr.md), form filling (forms.md), advanced/troubleshooting (reference.md)

Who it's for

  • Ops, finance, and legal staff who handle contracts, invoices, and reports as PDFs
  • Developers and data engineers automating PDF pipelines
  • Analysts pulling structured data out of scanned documents

Examples

  1. "Extract every table from these 30 invoice PDFs into one Excel sheet" → pdfplumber + pandas flow
  2. "Read the text from this scanned contract" → pdf2image + pytesseract OCR path (ocr.md)
  3. "Generate a 2-page report PDF and stamp our watermark on it" → reportlab build, then pypdf merge_page

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/appautomaton/document-SKILLs/HEAD/pdf/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the pdf folder from the GitHub repo appautomaton/document-SKILLs into my ~/.claude/skills/appautomaton-pdf/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/appautomaton/document-SKILLs.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r document-SKILLs/pdf ~/.claude/skills/pdf

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and go to your home directory: cd ~
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/appautomaton/document-SKILLs.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the whole pdf folder (including the referenced md files): cp -r document-SKILLs/pdf ~/.claude/skills/pdf
  5. Install system tools — macOS: brew install poppler qpdf tesseract; Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install poppler-utils qpdf tesseract-ocr
  6. Install uv so Python dependencies resolve automatically: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
  7. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "extract the tables from this PDF".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT