PDF Extract

SkillFiles & storage

Extract text and tables from PDF files using command-line tools in the shared volume at {{SHARED_VOLUME}}.

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Then ask your AI: use the PDF Extract skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by bidewio/better-openclaw in skills/pdf-extract/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Process PDF files from the shared volume at {{SHARED_VOLUME}}.

Extract Text

# Extract all text
pdftotext {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/document.pdf {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/output/document.txt

# Extract text from specific pages
pdftotext -f 1 -l 5 {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/document.pdf {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/output/pages.txt

Get PDF Info

pdfinfo {{SHARED_VOLUME}}/input/document.pdf

Tips for AI Agents

Use pdftotext (poppler-utils) for reliable text extraction.
Use tabula-java or camelot for structured table extraction.
OCR-scanned PDFs require tesseract for text recognition.

Signals

GitHub stars: 58
Forks: 6
Last commit: Aug 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: pdf-extract
Source: github.com/bidewio/better-openclaw

github.com/bidewio/better-openclaw