PDF Toolkit

Manipulate and read PDF files using open-source Python libraries: pypdf (BSD) for page operations, pdfplumber (MIT) for text/table extraction, and OCRmyPDF (MPL-2.0) for OCR.

When to Use

• Extract text or tables from a PDF.
• Merge several PDFs into one, or split / extract page ranges.
• Rotate pages or add a watermark/stamp.
• OCR a scanned (image-only) PDF to make it searchable.

For converting a PDF to clean Markdown for analysis, prefer the markitdown-converter skill. Use this skill for structural PDF operations.

Setup