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PDF Processing Skill
You now have expertise in PDF manipulation. Follow these workflows:
Reading PDFs
Option 1: Quick text extraction (preferred)
# Using pdftotext (poppler-utils)
pdftotext input.pdf - # Output to stdout
pdftotext input.pdf output.txt # Output to file
# If pdftotext not available, try:
python3 -c "
import fitz # PyMuPDF
doc = fitz.open('input.pdf')
for page in doc:
print(page.get_text())
"
Option 2: Page-by-page with metadata
import fitz # pip install pymupdf
doc = fitz.open("input.pdf")
print(f"Pages: {len(doc)}")
print(f"Metadata: {doc.metadata}")
for i, page in enumerate(doc):
text = page.get_text()
print(f"--- Page {i+1} ---")
print(text)
Creating PDFs
This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.