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using-filetype-pdf

Extracts tables, text, and metadata from PDFs and saves them to Excel files.

Updated Aug 23, 2026
Search Tags:#automation#document processing#data extraction#pdf#form filling#pdfplumber#pypdf
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npx skills add https://github.com/kidhardt/spanish-academic --skill using-filetype-pdf
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Skill: using-filetype-pdf
Source: https://github.com/kidhardt/spanish-academic/tree/main/.claude/skills/using-filetype-pdf
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/kidhardt/spanish-academic --skill using-filetype-pdf

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

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

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the manual, time-consuming process of interacting with PDF documents. It automates everything from extracting data and tables to filling out forms and manipulating document structure, saving you hours of repetitive work and reducing errors.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Advanced Data Extraction: Extract text, tables, and metadata from any PDF, including scanned documents using OCR.
  • Automated Form Filling: Programmatically fill both fillable and non-fillable PDF forms with precise data.
  • Document Manipulation: Merge, split, rotate, watermark, and password-protect PDFs with ease.
  • Use Case: You receive monthly reports as PDFs, each containing a table of sales figures. Use this skill to automatically extract these tables, combine them into a single Excel spreadsheet, and then generate a new summary PDF with a watermark, all without manual copy-pasting.

Quick Start

I need to extract all tables from the attached PDF file 'quarterly_report.pdf' and save them to an Excel file.