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This is your Swiss Army knife for PDF operations.

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What it does

For advanced pypdfium2 usage, see REFERENCE.md
For JavaScript libraries (pdf-lib), see REFERENCE.md
If you need to fill out a PDF form, follow the instructions in FORMS.md
For troubleshooting guides, see REFERENCE.md

Requirements & configuration

Requires: pip install pytesseract pdf2image
If you need to fill out a PDF form, follow the instructions in FORMS.md

Derived from the skill's own SKILL.md documentation · extracted 2026-07-23

This is your Swiss Army knife for PDF operations.

Source

Repository: https://github.com/anthropics/skills

pdf FAQ

What does the pdf skill do?

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill. For advanced pypdfium2 usage, see REFERENCE.md For JavaScript libraries (pdf-lib), see REFERENCE.md

What does pdf require?

Requires: pip install pytesseract pdf2image If you need to fill out a PDF form, follow the instructions in FORMS.md

How do I install pdf?

Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill pdf --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/anthropics/skills.

Maintain pdf?

Let people know it's listed here — add the badge (live metrics, light/dark aware) or a plain link to your README or docs.

[![pdf on getagentictools](https://getagentictools.com/badge/skills/anthropics-skills-pdf.svg)](https://getagentictools.com/skills/anthropics-skills-pdf?ref=badge)

npx agentictools info skills/anthropics-skills-pdf

The second line is the CLI lookup for this page — handy in READMEs and docs.