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PDF Processing Toolkit

A Claude Code skill that reads, merges, splits, extracts tables from, creates, and OCRs PDF files.

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

What it does

Gives Claude a practical playbook for nearly any PDF task. It triggers automatically whenever a .pdf file is mentioned or a PDF output is requested.

  • Read/extract: text, tables, and metadata via pypdf and pdfplumber (layout-preserving option)
  • Edit: merge, split, rotate, watermark
  • Create: multi-page reports with reportlab (use <sub>/<super> tags instead of Unicode sub/superscripts)
  • Secure: encrypt with pypdf, decrypt with qpdf
  • OCR: turn scans into searchable text with pdf2image + pytesseract
  • Forms: fill PDF forms by following forms.md

Who it's for

  • Office workers and researchers handling contracts, papers, and reports
  • Teams digitizing scanned documents
  • Analysts moving PDF tables into Excel
  • Developers auto-generating PDF reports

Examples

  1. "Merge these three quarterly reports into one PDF with the cover page first." → pypdf page-by-page merge
  2. "Pull every table out of this financial statement into a single spreadsheet." → pdfplumber tables → pandas → .xlsx
  3. "This scanned contract isn't searchable — fix it." → convert pages to images, run pytesseract OCR, output text

· · · Install guide · · ·

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

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

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 /tmp/sas && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/sas/skills/pdf ~/.claude/skills/

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

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git /tmp/sas
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r /tmp/sas/skills/pdf ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Install Python deps: pip install pypdf pdfplumber reportlab pandas openpyxl
  6. (Optional) CLI/OCR tools: macOS brew install poppler qpdf tesseract; Ubuntu sudo apt install poppler-utils qpdf tesseract-ocr, then pip install pytesseract pdf2image
  7. Restart Claude Code and test with "extract the tables from this PDF".
  8. Review LICENSE.txt — this skill ships under a proprietary license.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT