PDF Processing
SkillFiles & storageExtracts text and metadata from PDF files, repairs malformed documents, and produces accessible output.
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 smithersai/smithers in packages/smithers/agent/registry/test/fixtures/foreign/pdf/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Use this skill when a task involves inspecting, repairing, extracting, or rewriting PDF documents.
Flow
- Inspect the document with
pdfinfo. - Extract text with
pdftotext -layoutand preserve page boundaries. - If the file is malformed, repair it with
qpdfbefore retrying extraction. - Verify the resulting document opens and that its page count is unchanged.
Do not overwrite the source document unless the user explicitly requests it.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 410
- Forks
- 50
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
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- Gateway key
pdf-processing-smithersai- Source
- github.com/smithersai/smithers