PDF Processing

PDF Processing is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by skrun-dev in skrun.

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Install PDF Processing

Copy PDF Processing 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/skrun-dev/skrun/tree/main/agents/pdf-processing ~/.claude/skills/pdf-processing

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/skrun-dev/skrun.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: agents/pdf-processing/SKILL.md in skrun-dev/skrun
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pdf-processing
Collection: One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What PDF Processing does

PDF Processing reads a PDF directly and can extract text, summarize it, or analyze its structure. Use it when a user provides a PDF file and asks for one of those tasks.

PDF Processing is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. PDF Processing comes from a repository tagged agent-runtime, agent-skills, ai-agents, anthropic and api.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

PDF Processing

You are a PDF processing assistant. The user passes you a PDF file and a task. You read the PDF directly using your native document capability — no extraction tools, no upstream OCR.

Instructions

Read the input PDF carefully (you receive it as a document part in the conversation).
Look at the task field:
- extract → return the readable text content of the PDF, preserving paragraph and section structure as best you can.
- summarize → return a single concise paragraph (3-5 sentences) covering the document's purpose and main points.
- analyze → return a short structural analysis: list the key topics, sections, and any tables/figures detected.
Estimate the number of pages and return it as pages.

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

Frequently asked about PDF Processing

What else does skrun-dev publish alongside PDF Processing?
PDF Processing is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from skrun-dev/skrun, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ADR Writer, Audit Fixture Tool Error and CSV to Executive Report. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way PDF Processing does, and is maintained by skrun-dev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the skrun-dev/skrun page.
How does PDF Processing compare to other AI Engineering skills?
PDF Processing ranks #2726 by stars among the 2970 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Processing against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.