PDF Forms

Forms: detect, list, extract, flatten (pdf-forms)

Forms: detect, list, extract, flatten

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Management. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Understand PDF AcroForms.

Operations

• detect form
• list fields+types+values
• extract data
• flatten values into content

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.forms:list_fields / extract_form_data / flatten_form

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: PyMuPDF widget API
• Fallback: pypdf (reader fields)

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

fields enumerated

Related skills

pdf-fill-forms, pdf-inspect, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Are there fillable fields? List them."

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.