PDF Skill (Anthropic Official Source)

SkillFiles & storage

Use 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.

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

  1. Prefer reproducible scripted operations.
  2. Preserve page order and metadata unless explicitly changed.
  3. Validate output page count and extraction quality after transforms.
  4. Record command-level provenance for manuscript claims.

Quick Commands

from pypdf import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
print(len(reader.pages))

Signals

GitHub stars
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Forks
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Last commit
Jul 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
pdf-drpedapati
Source
github.com/drpedapati/sciclaw