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PDF Processing Skill

Teaches Claude to read, merge, split, extract tables from, OCR and generate PDFs with Python and CLI tools.

Docs & OfficeBeginner★ 1,125⑂ 109AI score 10/10Last updated: Sep 3, 2026

What it does

  • Triggers on any .pdf request and picks the right tool: pypdf for merge/split/rotate/encrypt, pdfplumber for text and table extraction, reportlab for creating PDFs, plus qpdf/pdftotext/pdfimages/pdftk on the command line.
  • Covers watermarking, metadata reading, password protection and removal, image extraction, and OCR of scanned PDFs via pdf2image + pytesseract.
  • Includes hard-won gotchas, e.g. never use Unicode sub/superscript glyphs in ReportLab—use <sub>/<super> markup instead.
  • Delegates form filling to FORMS.md and advanced/JS (pdf-lib) workflows to REFERENCE.md.

Who it's for

  • Office, legal and finance users handling contracts, invoices and reports
  • Analysts who need PDF tables turned into spreadsheets
  • Developers automating PDF report generation

Example uses

  1. "Merge these five quote PDFs into one file" → pypdf loop or qpdf --empty --pages
  2. "Pull every table out of this financial report into Excel" → pdfplumber + pandas to .xlsx
  3. "Make this scanned contract searchable" → convert pages to images and run pytesseract OCR

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings/HEAD/plugins/anthropic-office-skills/skills/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.
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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the plugins/anthropic-office-skills/skills/pdf folder from the GitHub repo fcakyon/claude-codex-settings into my ~/.claude/skills/fcakyon-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/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings.git /tmp/ccs && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/ccs/plugins/anthropic-office-skills/skills/pdf ~/.claude/skills/

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

  1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings.git
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Copy the skill: cp -r claude-codex-settings/plugins/anthropic-office-skills/skills/pdf ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Verify the companion docs exist: ls ~/.claude/skills/pdf (expect REFERENCE.md and FORMS.md).
  5. Install Python deps: pip install pypdf pdfplumber reportlab pandas openpyxl pytesseract pdf2image
  6. Install CLI tools (macOS: brew install poppler qpdf tesseract; Ubuntu: sudo apt install poppler-utils qpdf tesseract-ocr).
  7. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "extract the tables from this PDF"—the skill activates automatically.
View source on GitHub ↗License: Apache-2.0