Pdf

# PDF Document Skill

Comprehensive toolkit for PDF manipulation tasks including text/table extraction, document creation, merging, splitting, and form handling.

## Trigger
- When user needs PDF creation or manipulation
- Text or table extraction from PDF documents
- Merging or splitting PDF files
- PDF form filling or processing
- OCR processing of scanned documents

## Core Capabilities

**Text & Table Operations:**
- Extract text with layout preservation using pdfplumber
- Automated table detection and conversion to data formats like Excel
- OCR support for processing scanned documents

**Document Manipulation:**
- Merge multiple PDFs
- Split documents into individual pages
- Rotate pages and add watermarks
- Apply password encryption and decrypt protected files

**PDF Creation:**
- Generate new documents from scratch using reportlab
- Multi-page document support
- Custom formatting and styling

**Metadata & Forms:**
- Read and access document properties (title, author, subject)
- Fill and process PDF forms
- Access security and permissions

## Primary Libraries

- pypdf (basic operations)
- pdfplumber (structured extraction)
- reportlab (creation)
- Command-line tools: qpdf, pdftotext

## Use When

- Creating professional PDF reports
- Extracting data from PDF documents
- Merging multiple documents
- Processing scanned forms with OCR
- Automating document workflows
- Protecting documents with encryption