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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 extra

Setup & Installation

npx skills add https://github.com/openai/pdf --skill pdf
or paste the link and ask your coding assistant to install it
https://github.com/openai/pdf
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What 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

  • Working with pdf functionality
  • Implementing pdf features
  • Debugging pdf related issues