Diagnose PDF extractability and content structure before extraction.
npx skills add https://github.com/michaelkd01/dic-skills --skill pdf-reading-michaelkd01
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: pdf-reading Source: https://github.com/michaelkd01/dic-skills/tree/main/_public/pdf-reading Command: npx skills add https://github.com/michaelkd01/dic-skills --skill pdf-reading-michaelkd01
Without direct content in context, you cannot know if a PDF is text-searchable, contains embedded attachments, or hides charts, so this skill gives you a reliable inspection and extraction plan before consuming data.
Ask for a PDF inventory using pdfinfo then sample text from pdftotext to decide whether to rely on textual extraction or raster images.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
PDF text extraction starts by checking if the document is text-searchable using pdfinfo and pdftotext, then falling back to rasterizing pages with pdftoppm for OCR if the text layer is missing.
You can inventory PDF attachments, images, and metadata by running poppler utilities like pdfinfo. This inspection verifies fonts and page counts to decide whether to trust direct text extraction or inspect rasterized images.
Yes, pdfplumber extracts tables, paragraphs, and form field values from text PDFs. It is used alongside pypdf once you understand the document layout and encodings from an initial poppler utilities inspection.
Yes, poppler utilities are required for PDF metadata inspection, collecting page counts, and verifying fonts. Tools like pdfimages and pdftoppm also depend on poppler to rasterize pages and extract embedded images.
The best way to handle PDFs with charts or handwritten notes is rasterizing pages using pdftoppm or extracting embedded images with pdfimages, then applying an OCR fallback to extract readable insights if text is missing.
pdftotext returns empty results when a PDF contains scanned images instead of a text layer. After diagnosing this with poppler utilities, you must rasterize the pages and use an OCR fallback to extract the content.
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