Process PDF files - extract text, create PDFs, merge documents. Use when user asks to read PDF, create PDF, or work with PDF files.
Before you install
- Last update
- Files in folder
- 1
- Scripts
- No script files found
- SKILL.md size
- 2.5 KB (about 645 tokens of context each time it loads)
- License
- MIT
- Source on GitHub
- shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code
Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.
Install
npx skills add shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code@pdfRuns in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code@pdf --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/pdf- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/pdf
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /pdf.
What it does
PDF Processing Skill You now have expertise in PDF manipulation. Follow these workflows: Reading PDFs Option 1: Quick text extraction (preferred) Option 2: Page-by-page with metadata Creating PDFs Option 1: From Markdown (recommended) Option 2: Programmatically Option 3: From HTML Merging PDFs Splitting PDFs Key Libraries Task Library Install ------------------------ Read/Write/Merge PyMuPDF pip install pymupdf Create from scratch ReportLab pip install reportlab HTML to PDF pdfkit pip install pdfkit + wkhtmltopdf Text extraction pdftotext brew install poppler / apt install poppler-utils Best…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
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