PDF Document Skill

Comprehensive toolkit for PDF manipulation tasks including text/table extraction, document creation, merging, splitting, and form handling.

Trigger

• •When user needs PDF creation or manipulation
• •Text or table extraction from PDF documents
• •Merging or splitting PDF files
• •PDF form filling or processing
• •OCR processing of scanned documents

Core Capabilities

Text & Table Operations:

• •Extract text with layout preservation using pdfplumber
• •Automated table detection and conversion to data formats like Excel
• •OCR support for processing scanned documents

Document Manipulation:

• •Merge multiple PDFs
• •Split documents into individual pages
• •Rotate pages and add watermarks
• •Apply password encryption and decrypt protected files

PDF Creation:

• •Generate new documents from scratch using reportlab
• •Multi-page document support
• •Custom formatting and styling

Metadata & Forms:

• •Read and access document properties (title, author, subject)
• •Fill and process PDF forms
• •Access security and permissions

Primary Libraries

• •pypdf (basic operations)
• •pdfplumber (structured extraction)
• •reportlab (creation)
• •Command-line tools: qpdf, pdftotext

Use When

• •Creating professional PDF reports
• •Extracting data from PDF documents
• •Merging multiple documents
• •Processing scanned forms with OCR
• •Automating document workflows
• •Protecting documents with encryption