Extracts text, tables, and metadata from PDF files using pdfplumber.
Requirements: pdfplumber>=0.9.0
Example:
extract-text report.pdf
1---2name: pdf-extractor3description: pdf-extractor4---5# pdf-extractor67Extracts text, tables, and metadata from PDF files using `pdfplumber`.89<pdf-extractor>10Use this skill to process PDF documents. Supported operations:11- `extract-text <file>` — extract all text from a PDF12- `extract-tables <file>` — extract tabular data as JSON13- `get-metadata <file>` — return author, title, page count1415Requirements: `pdfplumber>=0.9.0`1617Example:18```19extract-text report.pdf20```21</pdf-extractor>
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