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PDF Extraction Skill

by claude-office-skills/skills

Extract text, tables, and metadata from PDFs using pdfplumber

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PDF Extraction Skill

Overview

This skill enables precise extraction of text, tables, and metadata from PDF documents using pdfplumber - the go-to library for PDF data extraction. Unlike basic PDF readers, pdfplumber provides detailed character-level positioning, accurate table detection, and visual debugging.

How to Use

- Provide the PDF file you want to extract from

- Specify what you need: text, tables, images, or metadata

- I'll generate pdfplumber code and execute it

Example prompts:

- "Extract all tables from this financial report"

- "Get text from pages 5-10 of this document"

- "Find and extract the invoice total from this PDF"

- "Convert this PDF table to CSV/Excel"

Domain Knowledge