Setup & Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/openai/skills --skill pdf
https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/pdf
View on GitHubWhat This Skill Does
Guides Claude through reading, generating, and validating PDF files. Uses Poppler to render pages as PNGs for visual inspection, reportlab for document creation, and pdfplumber or pypdf for text extraction.
Rendering pages to PNGs before delivery catches layout defects like clipped text and overlapping elements that text extraction tools silently miss.
When to use it
- Generating a formatted PDF report from structured data
- Extracting text from a multi-column PDF without losing layout context
- Checking a generated invoice for clipped text or misaligned tables
- Building a PDF resume or proposal with consistent typography and margins
- Validating page numbering and section headers before sending a document