What problem does it solve?
This skill eliminates the manual effort and specialized knowledge required to work with PDF documents, handling everything from creating new files to extracting data from scanned, encrypted, or corrupted PDFs.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Full PDF Lifecycle Support: Create new PDFs from scratch, edit existing content, extract text and tables, fill native and non-fillable forms, run OCR on scanned documents, and convert between PDF and other formats.
- Robust Error Handling: Automatically recovers from common PDF issues like encryption, corruption, and unreadable scanned text with built-in fallback workflows.
- Use Case: A user with 200 scanned invoice PDFs can use this skill to extract all line-item data via OCR, compile the data into a structured CSV, and generate a summary report PDF with clickable source citations in minutes.
Quick Start
Use the pdf skill to extract all text and tables from the annual report PDF and save the extracted data to an Excel file.