PDF Context Extractor
SkillFiles & storageExtracts text from PDF files using pypdf 5.x. Use when you need to read PDF documents to understand background context, column definitions, and scoring rules for data analysis tasks.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
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Then ask your AI: use the PDF Context Extractor skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by openlair/openskill in tasks-evolved/financial-modeling-qa/environment/skills/evo-pdf-context-extractor/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Extracts text content from PDF files using pypdf 5.x (PdfReader API).
Usage
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/app/environment/skills/evo-pdf-context-extractor/scripts')
from utils import extract_pdf_text, get_all_pages_text
# Get all text from a PDF
text = extract_pdf_text('/path/to/file.pdf')
# Get text as list of pages
pages = get_all_pages_text('/path/to/file.pdf')
Key Functions
extract_pdf_text(filepath)- Returns all text from PDF as single stringget_all_pages_text(filepath)- Returns list of strings, one per page
Technical Notes
- Uses
from pypdf import PdfReader(NOT PyPDF2) - Uses
page.extract_text()method - Handles malformed PDFs gracefully
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 89
- Forks
- 4
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
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evo-pdf-context-extractor- Source
- github.com/openlair/openskill