PDF Processing Skill
This skill provides capabilities for working with PDF documents.
Quick Start
Use pdfplumber to extract text from PDFs:
python
import pdfplumber
with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text()
Capabilities
Text Extraction
- •Extract text from single or multiple pages
- •Preserve layout and formatting
- •Handle multi-column documents
Table Extraction
- •Identify and extract tables
- •Convert to structured data (CSV, JSON)
- •Handle complex table layouts
Form Operations
- •Fill PDF forms programmatically
- •Extract form field values
- •Create fillable forms
Document Operations
- •Merge multiple PDFs
- •Split PDFs by page
- •Rotate pages
- •Add watermarks
Best Practices
- •Always check if the PDF is encrypted before processing
- •Handle OCR cases for scanned documents
- •Validate extracted data for accuracy
- •Use appropriate libraries (pdfplumber for extraction, PyPDF2 for manipulation)