What problem does it solve?
This Skill solves the issue of losing critical document structure, including tables, layout, and embedded images, when extracting text from scanned PDFs or image-based documents, which makes the content difficult to edit, reuse, or ingest into knowledge systems.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Layout-Preserving Conversion: Converts PDFs and common image formats (PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF) to structured Markdown while retaining original document layout, table structures, and image positions.
- Document Correction: Automatically corrects tilted, inverted, or warped scanned documents (such as curved book pages) via optional flags to improve extraction accuracy.
- Fallback Support: Automatically falls back to lighter OCR tools if no PaddleOCR API token is configured, ensuring the workflow does not break for users without API access.
- Use Case: Researchers processing scanned academic papers can use this Skill to retain original table structures and image positions, so the extracted content can be directly ingested into knowledge bases or used for further analysis.
Quick Start
Use the PaddleOCR 文档提取 skill to convert the uploaded scanned document 'thesis_chapter1.pdf' into structured Markdown while preserving all tables and images.