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PDF Processing Toolkit

An end-to-end PDF skill for reading, merging, splitting, table extraction, creation, and OCR.

Docs & OfficeBeginner★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 10/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

  • Extracts text and tables from PDFs with pdfplumber, including code to dump tables straight to Excel.
  • Merges, splits, rotates, watermarks, encrypts and decrypts PDFs using pypdf, qpdf, or pdftk.
  • Creates new PDFs with reportlab, plus a practical warning to use <sub>/<super> tags instead of Unicode sub/superscripts that render as black boxes.
  • Handles scanned documents via pdf2image + pytesseract OCR, and image extraction via pdfimages.
  • Points to forms.md for filling PDF forms and reference.md for advanced/JS workflows.

Who it's for

  • Office workers, researchers, and students who deal with contracts, reports, and papers in PDF.
  • Analysts who need invoice or report tables pulled into spreadsheets.
  • Developers automating PDF report generation.

Examples

  1. "Combine these three PDFs into one" → merged output via qpdf or pypdf.
  2. "Pull the tables from pages 12–20 into Excel" → pdfplumber extraction saved as .xlsx.
  3. "Make this scanned contract searchable" → convert pages to images, then run pytesseract OCR.

· · · 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/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/HEAD/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 skills/pdf folder from the GitHub repo K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/k-dense-ai-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/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/pdf ~/.claude/skills/

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

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/pdf ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Install Python deps: pip install pypdf pdfplumber reportlab pandas openpyxl
  6. Optional system tools for OCR/image extraction — macOS: brew install poppler tesseract qpdf; Ubuntu: sudo apt install poppler-utils tesseract-ocr qpdf
  7. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "extract the tables from this PDF".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT