ericwang915 PDF Convert Skill
Convert PDF pages to images or combine images into a PDF.
When to Use
✅ USE this skill when:
- "Convert this PDF to images"
- "Save page 3 as a PNG"
- "Make a PDF from these images"
- "Export PDF pages as JPEG"
- User wants to convert between PDF and image formats
When NOT to Use
❌ DON'T use this skill when:
- Extracting text from PDF → use
pdf_reader - Creating PDF from text/markdown → use
pdf_writer - Converting to DOCX, HTML, etc. → use specialized converters
- Merging PDFs → use
pdf_merge
Usage/Commands
Images to PDF
python {skill_path}/convert_pdf.py to-pdf OUTPUT_PDF IMAGE1 IMAGE2 [IMAGE3 ...] [options]
Options:
--dir PATH— use all images from a directory--fit— fit images to page (default: actual size with margins)--page-size A4|letter— page size (default: A4)
PDF to Images
python {skill_path}/convert_pdf.py to-images INPUT_PDF [options]
Options:
--pages "1-5"— specific pages (default: all)--output DIR— output directory (default: same as input)--img-format png|jpeg— image format (default: png)--dpi 150— resolution (default: 150)
Examples
- "Convert PDF to PNGs" →
python {skill_path}/convert_pdf.py to-images doc.pdf --output ./images/ - "Make PDF from images" →
python {skill_path}/convert_pdf.py to-pdf album.pdf img1.png img2.jpg - "Page 3 as JPEG" →
python {skill_path}/convert_pdf.py to-images doc.pdf --pages 3 --img-format jpeg
Notes
- Install dependencies:
pip install PyPDF2 Pillow to-imagesrequires a PDF rendering library; falls back to a placeholder if pdf2image/poppler is unavailable- Supported image inputs: PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF