PDF skills for Claude Code and Codex
PDF skills cover every common PDF job: text and table extraction, merging and splitting, form filling, watermarking and redaction, OCR, creating designed PDFs from scratch or from Markdown, natural-language edits and conversion to Markdown for analysis.
Highest-scoring PDF skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot: pdf from anthropics/skills (86/100), nutrient-document-processing from PSPDFKit-labs/nutrient-agent-skill (82/100) and learn-this from michalparkola/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code (77/100). Scores come from the Suede Skill Check.
- 12 listed skills
- 11 repositories
- 5 with full pages
6 from official publishers. 5 bundle scripts. 2 connect to an outside service. Listed in Documents and Office Files (11), Productivity and Knowledge Work (1).
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| Skill | Repository | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| learn-this 77/100 · C | michalparkola/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code | Extracts content from a YouTube video, article, or PDF URL, detecting the content type automatically, and turns it into an action plan. |
| minimax-pdf 73/100 · C | MiniMax-AI/skills | Creates PDFs from scratch, fills in PDF form fields, and reformats existing documents when visual quality and design identity matter. |
| nano-pdf 68/100 · D | swarmclawai/swarmclaw | Edits or creates PDFs from natural-language instructions with the nano-pdf CLI, including adding pages, changing text, and converting content to PDF. |
| nutrient-document-processing 82/100 · B | PSPDFKit-labs/nutrient-agent-skill | Processes documents with Nutrient DWS Processor for PDF generation and conversion, OCR, redaction, watermarking, signing, password protection, optimization, and PDF/A or PDF/UA output. |
| pdf 86/100 · B | anthropics/skills | Handles PDF tasks including extracting text and tables, merging, splitting, watermarking, creating PDFs, filling forms, extracting images, and running OCR on scanned files. |
| convert-pdf-to-md 81/100 · B | github/awesome-copilot | Converts PDF (.pdf) documents into Markdown so their contents can be accurately analyzed, summarized, searched, or extracted from. Use this skill… |
| firecrawl-parse 71/100 · C | firecrawl/skills | Convert a local file (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, …) to markdown, or answer questions about its content. Use whenever the input is a file path, not a URL. |
| liteparse 89/100 · B | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Local document and PDF parsing that returns spatial text with bounding boxes. Use for extracting text from PDFs, DOCX, Office files, and images… |
| make-pdf 70/100 · C | garrytan/gstack | Turn any markdown file into a publication-quality PDF. (gstack) |
| pdf 71/100 · C | openai/skills | Use when tasks involve reading, creating, or reviewing PDF files where rendering and layout matter; prefer visual checks by rendering pages… |
| pdf-processor 66/100 · D | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Process PDFs - extract text, tables, and structured data from documents |
| pdftk-server 80/100 · B | github/awesome-copilot | Skill for using the command-line tool pdftk (PDFtk Server) for working with PDF files. Use when asked to merge PDFs, split PDFs, rotate pages… |
How to choose PDF skills
Local skills (pdf, pdftk, make-pdf, nano-pdf) run bundled scripts or a command-line tool on your machine. Install the tool each one names, such as pdftk or the nano-pdf CLI.
Nutrient handles OCR, redaction and signing through its hosted processor and reads an API key. Use it when you need those operations at production quality.
Ask the agent to render and check the PDF it produced. Skills that compare the visual output catch layout problems that text extraction misses.
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