PDF Processing

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Process and extract content from 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

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by lwmxiaobei/xbcode in skills/pdf/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

To work with PDF files:

Use bash to check if pdftotext is available: which pdftotext
If not installed, suggest: brew install poppler (macOS) or apt install poppler-utils (Linux)
Extract text: pdftotext input.pdf - (outputs to stdout)
For structured extraction: pdftotext -layout input.pdf -
For page-specific extraction: pdftotext -f 1 -l 5 input.pdf - (pages 1-5)

For PDF metadata: pdfinfo input.pdf For PDF to images: pdftoppm -png input.pdf output_prefix

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