PDF

PDF is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by axoviq-ai in synthadoc.

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Install in seconds

Install PDF

Copy PDF into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/axoviq-ai/synthadoc/tree/main/synthadoc/skills/pdf ~/.claude/skills/pdf

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/axoviq-ai/synthadoc.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: synthadoc/skills/pdf/SKILL.md in axoviq-ai/synthadoc
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pdf
Collection: One of 10 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What PDF does

PDF extracts text from PDF files using pypdf, with pdfminer.six as a fallback for CJK fonts. Use it when the source is a .pdf file or the user asks for a research paper.

PDF is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. PDF comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, cli-tool, domain-adaptation and enterprise.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

PDF Skill

Extracts text from PDF files using pypdf as the primary parser, with pdfminer.six as a fallback for CJK fonts that pypdf cannot decode (detected when pypdf yields fewer than 50 characters per page on average).

Setup

pip install pypdf pdfminer.six

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about PDF

What else does axoviq-ai publish alongside PDF?
PDF is one of 10 skills that DirSkills catalogs from axoviq-ai/synthadoc, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include DOCX, Image and Markdown. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way PDF does, and is maintained by axoviq-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the axoviq-ai/synthadoc page.
How does PDF compare to other Automation skills?
PDF ranks #834 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of PDF against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.