PDF Read/Write Toolkit

Read, extract, and generate PDF files. Use when user asks to read PDF content, extract text/tables, merge PDFs, fill forms, or generate PDFs from HTML/Markdown.

PDF Skill

Read, extract, analyze, and generate PDF documents.

Capabilities

• Extract text from PDF (full or per-page)
• Extract tables from PDF as CSV/JSON
• Get metadata (title, author, pages, etc.)
• Merge multiple PDFs into one
• Split PDF by page ranges
• Generate PDF from HTML or Markdown
• Fill PDF forms

Scripts

All scripts are in scripts/ relative to this skill directory.

Read / Extract

bash

# Extract all text
python3 scripts/pdf_read.py <file.pdf>

# Extract text from specific pages (1-indexed)
python3 scripts/pdf_read.py <file.pdf> --pages 1,3,5-10

# Extract tables as CSV
python3 scripts/pdf_read.py <file.pdf> --tables --format csv

# Extract tables as JSON
python3 scripts/pdf_read.py <file.pdf> --tables --format json

# Get PDF metadata and page count
python3 scripts/pdf_read.py <file.pdf> --info

Merge / Split

bash

# Merge multiple PDFs
python3 scripts/pdf_merge.py output.pdf input1.pdf input2.pdf input3.pdf

# Split: extract specific pages
python3 scripts/pdf_split.py input.pdf output.pdf --pages 1,3,5-10

Generate

bash

# Generate PDF from HTML file
python3 scripts/pdf_generate.py input.html output.pdf

# Generate PDF from HTML string
python3 scripts/pdf_generate.py --html "<h1>Hello</h1><p>World</p>" output.pdf

# Generate PDF from Markdown (converted to HTML first)
python3 scripts/pdf_generate.py input.md output.pdf

Usage Notes

• For large PDFs, use --pages to limit extraction scope
• Table extraction works best with well-structured tables; complex layouts may need manual cleanup
• PDF generation via WeasyPrint supports CSS styling — pass a --css file for custom styles
• All paths can be absolute or relative to the workspace