pdf-toolkit

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Everything for working with PDF files: read/extract text and tables, merge and split, rotate pages, add watermarks, fill forms, encrypt/decrypt, extract images, and OCR scanned PDFs to make them searchable. Adapted from the Anthropic Skills PDF guide.

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Skill body

PDF Processing Guide

Essential PDF operations using Python libraries and CLI tools.

Quick start

from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter

reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
text = "".join(page.extract_text() for page in reader.pages)

Common operations

  • Merge / split with PdfWriter — append pages or write out page ranges.
  • Rotate pages with page.rotate(90).
  • Forms — read field names, then writer.update_page_form_field_values(...).
  • Encrypt / decrypt with writer.encrypt(password).
  • OCR scanned PDFs (ocrmypdf in.pdf out.pdf) to make them searchable.

Tables

For mixed text + scanned tables, detect table regions per page, normalize rows/columns, merge split cells, and emit structured JSON { page, rows[] }.

Imported into Atrium from the Anthropic Skills collection.