skills.rest
virahitvin8
virahitvin8COMMUNITY
Explore all skills by this author →
GitHub

pdf

Extract, merge, split, create, and fill PDF documents using Python libraries and command-line tools.

2|Updated May 30, 2026
Search Tags:#ocr#document processing#pdf#form filling#text extraction#pypdf#merge pdf
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/virahitvin8/crafty-gis --skill pdf-virahitvin8
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: pdf
Source: https://github.com/virahitvin8/crafty-gis/tree/main/GIT_STAR/assignment-generator/antigravity-skills-main/antigravity-skills-main/skills/pdf
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/virahitvin8/crafty-gis --skill pdf-virahitvin8

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill requires pypdf, pdfplumber, pdf2image, Pillow, and includes scripts (resource) and references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? Working with PDF files programmatically is fragmented across many libraries and tools, making tasks like text extraction, form filling, merging, and OCR error-prone and time-consuming without clear guidance. ## Core Features & Use Cases - PDF Manipulation: Merge, split, rotate, encrypt, decrypt, watermark, and crop PDFs using pypdf, qpdf, and pdftk. - Content Extraction: Extract text, tables, metadata, and embedded images with pdfplumber, pypdfium2, and poppler-utils, including OCR for scanned documents via pytesseract. - PDF Creation & Form Filling: Generate new PDFs with reportlab or pdf-lib, and fill both fillable and non-fillable PDF forms using dedicated scripts with bounding-box validation. - Use Case: Given a stack of scanned application forms, convert them to images, determine field coordinates, validate bounding boxes, and produce filled PDFs automatically. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to merge several PDF files into one document or extract all tables from a specific PDF file.

Frequently Asked Questions about pdf

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I extract text and tables from a PDF in Python?▼

Use pdfplumber to extract text with layout preservation and to detect tables via page.extract_tables(). For simple text extraction, pypdf's page.extract_text() or the pdftotext command-line tool also work.

How do I fill out a PDF form programmatically?▼

First run check_fillable_fields.py to detect fillable fields. For fillable PDFs, extract field info and use fill_fillable_fields.py with a JSON of values. For non-fillable PDFs, determine coordinates and use fill_pdf_form_with_annotations.py.

Which tool should I use to merge or split PDF files?▼

Use pypdf's PdfWriter for Python-based merging and splitting, or qpdf from the command line for fast operations like qpdf --empty --pages file1.pdf file2.pdf -- merged.pdf.

Can I extract text from a scanned PDF document?▼

Scanned PDFs contain images, not text layers, so standard parsers fail. Convert pages to images with pdf2image, then run OCR with pytesseract to recover searchable text.

Why do subscript characters render as black boxes in reportlab PDFs?▼

ReportLab's built-in fonts lack Unicode subscript and superscript glyphs, so they render as solid boxes. Use <sub> and <super> XML tags inside Paragraph objects instead.

Related Skills

Explore More Software Engineering Skills→
claude-office-skillsclaude-office-skills
368

PDF Converter

Convert PDF files to and from Word, Excel, and images.

Official
Intermediate
Hollis36Hollis36
1

pdf

Extract text and tables from PDFs using Python libraries.

Community
Intermediate
diegogalmarinidiegogalmarini

notary-identity-vision

Extract and validate identity data from Argentinian DNI and passport images against MRZ codes.

Community
Advanced
legoutlegout
3

image-ocr

Extracts text and structured data from images using OCR engines.

Community
Advanced