PDF Processing

PDF Processing

This skill provides utilities for working with PDF documents.

Quick Start

Use pdfplumber to extract text from PDFs:

import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
    text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text()
    print(text)

Available Operations

1. Text Extraction: Extract text content from PDF pages
2. Table Extraction: Extract tabular data from PDFs
3. Form Filling: Fill PDF forms with provided data
4. Document Merging: Combine multiple PDFs into one

Advanced Features

Form filling: See FORMS.md for complete guide

Utility scripts:

• Run scripts/analyze_form.py to extract form fields
• Run scripts/extract_text.py to extract text from a PDF

Best Practices

1. Always validate PDF files before processing
2. Handle password-protected PDFs gracefully
3. Check for scanned PDFs that may require OCR