reading-pdf
CommunityTurn PDFs into searchable text fast.
Authorfascari
Version1.0.0
Installs0
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What problem does it solve?
Reading PDFs often requires manual copying or OCR for scanned documents. This Skill provides a reliable way to extract readable text from PDFs using Poppler's pdftotext as the primary tool, with pypdf as a fallback when Poppler is unavailable, enabling downstream summarization and question-answering.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Layout-aware text extraction: preserves word boundaries and handles multi-column layouts for readable output.
- Fallback extraction: automatically switches to pypdf if pdftotext is not installed.
- Text-driven tasks: supports summarization, QA, and content analysis on extracted text.
Quick Start
Provide a PDF path or attach a file to extract and present its text content.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
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Please help me install this Skill: Name: reading-pdf Download link: https://github.com/fascari/ai-config/archive/main.zip#reading-pdf Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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