bytedesk/bytedesk/pdf
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Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.
Install
npx vskill@latest install bytedesk/bytedesk/pdfSKILL.md
The same SKILL.md was published earlier as shuyu-labs/webcode/pdf.
PDF Processing Guide
Overview
This guide covers essential PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features, JavaScript libraries, and detailed examples, see reference.md. If you need to fill out a PDF form, read forms.md and follow its instructions.
Quick Start
Python Libraries
pypdf - Basic Operations
Merge PDFs
Split PDF
Extract Metadata
Rotate Pages
pdfplumber - Text and Table Extraction
Extract Text with Layout
Extract Tables
Advanced Table Extraction
reportlab - Create PDFs
Basic PDF Creation
Create PDF with Multiple Pages
Command-Line Tools
pdftotext (poppler-utils)
qpdf
pdftk (if available)
Common Tasks
Extract Text from Scanned PDFs
Add Watermark
Extract Images
Password Protection
Quick Reference
| Task | Best Tool | Command/Code | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merge PDFs | pypdf | writer.add_page(page) | |
| Split PDFs | pypdf | One page per file | |
| Extract text | pdfplumber | page.extract_text() | |
| Extract tables | pdfplumber | page.extract_tables() | |
| Create PDFs | reportlab | Canvas or Platypus | |
| Command line merge | qpdf | qpdf --empty --pages ... | |
| OCR scanned PDFs | pytesseract | Convert to image first | |
| Fill PDF forms | pdf-lib or pypdf (see forms.md) | See forms.md |
Next Steps
- For advanced pypdfium2 usage, see reference.md
- For JavaScript libraries (pdf-lib), see reference.md
- If you need to fill out a PDF form, follow the instructions in forms.md
- For troubleshooting guides, see reference.md
Security
- Security scanPassed, 100 of 100Pattern checks on the skill's files.
- Model reviewNot runA model review is scheduled for the next rescan.
Quality evaluation
- Task evaluationWarning, 87 of 100Marginal. 1 run. Evaluated 7 months ago.
Source
- SKILL.md in the repositoryCheckingstarter/src/main/resources/skills/pdf/SKILL.md
Popularity
- Repository stars
- 386
- Repository forks
- 113
- 7-day trend score
- 30
Stars and forks are for the whole GitHub repository, not this skill alone. Refreshed 19 Mar 2026, 7 months ago.
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