Pdf

This is a solid all-in-one PDF toolkit that covers the practical stuff you actually need: extracting text and tables with pdfplumber, merging and splitting documents with pypdf, creating new PDFs from scratch using reportlab, and handling form filling. The guide is well organized with working code snippets for common tasks like adding watermarks, password protection, and OCR for scanned documents. It also includes command-line alternatives with qpdf and poppler-utils if you prefer that route. The table extraction examples are especially useful since getting structured data out of PDFs is usually a pain. Good reference to have when you need to automate document workflows without reaching for a paid API.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add aiskillstore/marketplace --skill pdf --agent claude-code

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Files

PDF Processing Guide

Overview

This guide covers essential PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features, JavaScript libraries, and detailed examples, see reference.md. If you need to fill out a PDF form, read forms.md and follow its instructions.

Quick Start

from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter

# Read a PDF
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
print(f"Pages: {len(reader.pages)}")

# Extract text
text = ""
for page in reader.pages:
    text += page.extract_text()

Python Libraries

pypdf - Basic Operations

Merge PDFs

from pypdf import PdfWriter, PdfReader

writer = PdfWriter()
for pdf_file in ["doc1.pdf", "doc2.pdf", "doc3.pdf"]:
    reader = PdfReader(pdf_file)
    for page in reader.pages:
        writer.add_page(page)

with open("merged.pdf", "wb") as output:
    writer.write(output)

Split PDF

reader = PdfReader("input.pdf")
for i, page in enumerate(reader.pages):
    writer = PdfWriter()
    writer.add_page(page)
    with open(f"page_{i+1}.pdf", "wb") as output:
        writer.write(output)

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