PDF Skill (Anthropic Official Source)
SkillFiles & storageUse this skill whenever PDF files are created, read, merged, split, transformed, OCR-processed, or data-extracted.
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 Skill (Anthropic Official Source) skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by drpedapati/sciclaw in skills/pdf/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/pdf
Use this skill whenever PDF artifacts are involved.
Typical Triggers
- "extract text/tables from this PDF"
- "merge or split PDFs"
- "rotate or watermark pages"
- "OCR this scanned document"
Working Rules
- Prefer reproducible scripted operations.
- Preserve page order and metadata unless explicitly changed.
- Validate output page count and extraction quality after transforms.
- Record command-level provenance for manuscript claims.
Quick Commands
from pypdf import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
print(len(reader.pages))
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 88
- Forks
- 17
- Last commit
- Jul 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
pdf-drpedapati- Source
- github.com/drpedapati/sciclaw