PDF Processing Skill

SkillFiles & storage

Extract text and tables from PDF files, fill forms, merge documents. Use when working with PDF files or when the user mentions PDFs, forms, or document extraction.

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 Processing Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by aiskillstore/marketplace in skills/0xkynz/pdf-processing/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

This skill provides capabilities for working with PDF documents.

Quick Start

Use pdfplumber to extract text from PDFs:

import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
    text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text()

Capabilities

Text Extraction

  • Extract text from single or multiple pages
  • Preserve layout and formatting
  • Handle multi-column documents

Table Extraction

  • Identify and extract tables
  • Convert to structured data (CSV, JSON)
  • Handle complex table layouts

Form Operations

  • Fill PDF forms programmatically
  • Extract form field values
  • Create fillable forms

Document Operations

  • Merge multiple PDFs
  • Split PDFs by page
  • Rotate pages
  • Add watermarks

Best Practices

  1. Always check if the PDF is encrypted before processing
  2. Handle OCR cases for scanned documents
  3. Validate extracted data for accuracy
  4. Use appropriate libraries (pdfplumber for extraction, PyPDF2 for manipulation)

Signals

GitHub stars
422
Forks
44
Last commit
Sep 2026
Advanced
Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
pdf-processing
Source
github.com/aiskillstore/marketplace