PDF Processing Skill
SkillFiles & storageProcess PDF files - extract text, create PDFs, merge documents. Use when user asks to read PDF, create PDF, or work with PDF files.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the PDF Processing Skill skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by chris-debug-0225/learn-claude-code-java in skills/pdf/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
You now have expertise in PDF manipulation. Follow these workflows:
Reading PDFs
Option 1: Quick text extraction (preferred)
pdftotext input.pdf -
pdftotext input.pdf output.txt
Creating PDFs
Option 1: From Markdown
pandoc input.md -o output.pdf
Option 2: Programmatically
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
c = canvas.Canvas("output.pdf")
c.drawString(100, 750, "Hello, PDF!")
c.save()
Merging PDFs
import fitz
result = fitz.open()
for pdf_path in ["file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"]:
doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
result.insert_pdf(doc)
result.save("merged.pdf")
Best Practices
- Check tool availability first
- Handle encoding issues
- Large PDFs page-by-page
- OCR for scanned PDFs if needed
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 100
- Forks
- 23
- Last commit
- Mar 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
pdf-chris-debug-0225- Source
- github.com/chris-debug-0225/learn-claude-code-java