Agent skill

pdf-processing

Extract text and tables from PDF files, fill forms, merge documents. Use when working with PDF files or when the user mentions PDFs, forms, or document extraction.

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SKILL.md

PDF Processing

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()
    print(text)

Extracting tables

Extract tables from PDFs with automatic detection:

python
import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("report.pdf") as pdf:
    page = pdf.pages[0]
    tables = page.extract_tables()

    for table in tables:
        for row in table:
            print(row)

Extracting all pages

Process multi-page documents efficiently:

python
import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
    full_text = ""
    for page in pdf.pages:
        full_text += page.extract_text() + "\n\n"

    print(full_text)

Form filling

For PDF form filling, see FORMS.md for the complete guide including field analysis and validation.

Merging PDFs

Combine multiple PDF files:

python
from pypdf import PdfMerger

merger = PdfMerger()

for pdf in ["file1.pdf", "file2.pdf", "file3.pdf"]:
    merger.append(pdf)

merger.write("merged.pdf")
merger.close()

Splitting PDFs

Extract specific pages or ranges:

python
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter

reader = PdfReader("input.pdf")
writer = PdfWriter()

# Extract pages 2-5
for page_num in range(1, 5):
    writer.add_page(reader.pages[page_num])

with open("output.pdf", "wb") as output:
    writer.write(output)

Available packages

  • pdfplumber - Text and table extraction (recommended)
  • pypdf - PDF manipulation, merging, splitting
  • pdf2image - Convert PDFs to images (requires poppler)
  • pytesseract - OCR for scanned PDFs (requires tesseract)

Common patterns

Extract and save text:

python
import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("input.pdf") as pdf:
    text = "\n\n".join(page.extract_text() for page in pdf.pages)

with open("output.txt", "w") as f:
    f.write(text)

Extract tables to CSV:

python
import pdfplumber
import csv

with pdfplumber.open("tables.pdf") as pdf:
    tables = pdf.pages[0].extract_tables()

    with open("output.csv", "w", newline="") as f:
        writer = csv.writer(f)
        for table in tables:
            writer.writerows(table)

Error handling

Handle common PDF issues:

python
import pdfplumber

try:
    with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
        if len(pdf.pages) == 0:
            print("PDF has no pages")
        else:
            text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text()
            if text is None or text.strip() == "":
                print("Page contains no extractable text (might be scanned)")
            else:
                print(text)
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error processing PDF: {e}")

Performance tips

  • Process pages in batches for large PDFs
  • Use multiprocessing for multiple files
  • Extract only needed pages rather than entire document
  • Close PDF objects after use

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