PDF Skill

Create PDFs from structured specs, build and fill AcroForm forms (with layout linting and visual overlays), extract text/tables/metadata, merge/split/rotate/watermark/stamp pages, export page images, manage metadata and attachments, and encrypt/decrypt — using pypdf, reportlab, and pdfplumber. Two absorbed capabilities live in references/ (read the matching file before those tasks):

• Scanned/image-only PDFs and OCR (pymupdf fast path, marker-pdf quality path, scripts/extract_pymupdf.py + scripts/extract_marker.py): references/ocr-extraction.md
• Editing text inside an existing PDF via natural-language prompts (nano-pdf CLI): references/nano-pdf-editing.md

When to Use

• Generate a report, invoice, or multi-page document as PDF.
• Build a fillable AcroForm (text/checkbox/radio/dropdown) from a JSON spec, linting the layout first.
• Pull text, tables (JSON/CSV), metadata, or form-field values out of a PDF.
• Merge, split, rotate, extract page subsets, watermark, stamp text/images at coordinates, bookmark, or compress PDFs.
• Export pages as PNGs for visual review or for OCR hand-off; set/clear document metadata; add/extract file attachments.
• Fill or flatten AcroForm forms; encrypt or decrypt with passwords.
• NOT for scanned/image-only PDFs (use references/ocr-extraction.md) and NOT for pixel-perfect HTML-to-PDF rendering (use a headless browser).

Prerequisites