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PDF Skill

A reusable Skill that teaches an agent to read, fill, merge, split and OCR PDF files. Skills package instructions plus scripts an agent can invoke.

Seed entry. Anthropic publishes a set of open Skills. Run npm run scrape to pull the latest SKILL.md definitions.

PDF Skill

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files: reading or extracting text/tables, merging or splitting documents, rotating pages, adding watermarks, filling forms, encrypting/decrypting, extracting images, or running OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable.

How to use

  1. Identify the operation the user wants (extract, merge, split, fill, ocr, …).
  2. Call the matching script with the input path(s) and desired output path.
  3. Report the result path and a one-line summary of what changed.

Do not use for

  • Word documents (.docx) — use the docx skill.
  • Spreadsheets — use the xlsx skill.
  • General coding tasks unrelated to documents.
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Provider
Anthropic
Origin
Official
Type
Skills
Format
SKILL.md
License
MIT
Language
English
Added
2026-03-19
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