claudegoodies
Skill

pdf

From shareAI-lab

Process PDF files - extract text, create PDFs, merge documents. Use when user asks to read PDF, create PDF, or work with PDF files.

Provides shell/Python workflows for extracting, creating, merging, and splitting PDF files.

Use it when

  • Extracting text from a PDF via pdftotext or PyMuPDF
  • Generating a PDF from Markdown, HTML, or from scratch
  • Merging multiple PDFs into one file
  • Splitting a PDF into individual page files

Skip it if

  • Requires external tools installed: poppler, pandoc, wkhtmltopdf, or Python libs
  • No OCR built in - scanned PDFs need separate pytesseract setup
  • Just a collection of shell/Python snippets, not a packaged tool

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Repository
shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code
Status
Actively maintained
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Source file
skills/pdf/SKILL.md

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The instructions Claude Code reads when this skill runs.

# PDF Processing Skill

You now have expertise in PDF manipulation. Follow these workflows:

## Reading PDFs

**Option 1: Quick text extraction (preferred)**
```bash
# Using pdftotext (poppler-utils)
pdftotext input.pdf -  # Output to stdout
pdftotext input.pdf output.txt  # Output to file

# If pdftotext not available, try:
python3 -c "
import fitz  # PyMuPDF
doc = fitz.open('input.pdf')
for page in doc:
    print(page.get_text())
"
```

**Option 2: Page-by-page with metadata**
```python
import fitz  # pip install pymupdf

doc = fitz.open("input.pdf")
print(f"Pages: {len(doc)}")
print(f"Metadata: {doc.metadata}")

for i, page in enumerate(doc):
    text = page.get_text()
    print(f"--- Page {i+1} ---")
    print(text)
```

## Creating PDFs

**Option 1: From Markdown (recommended)**
```bash
# Using pandoc
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf

# With custom styling
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex -V geometry:margin=1in
```

**Option 2: Programmatically**
```python
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

c = canvas.Canvas("output.pdf", pagesize=letter)
c.drawString(100, 750, "Hello, PDF!")
c.save()
```

**Option 3: From HTML**
```bash
# Using wkhtmltopdf
wkhtmltopdf input.html output.pdf

# Or with Python
python3 -c "
import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_file('input.html', 'output.pdf')
"
```

## Merging PDFs

```python
import fitz

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