PDF Processing Skill

This skill provides capabilities for working with PDF documents.

Quick Start

Use pdfplumber to extract text from PDFs:

import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf: text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text()

Capabilities

Text Extraction

• Extract text from single or multiple pages

• Preserve layout and formatting

• Handle multi-column documents

Table Extraction

• Identify and extract tables

• Convert to structured data (CSV, JSON)

• Handle complex table layouts

Form Operations

• Fill PDF forms programmatically

• Extract form field values

• Create fillable forms

Document Operations

• Merge multiple PDFs

• Split PDFs by page

• Rotate pages

• Add watermarks

Best Practices

• Always check if the PDF is encrypted before processing

• Handle OCR cases for scanned documents

• Validate extracted data for accuracy

• Use appropriate libraries (pdfplumber for extraction, PyPDF2 for manipulation)