PDF Inspect

Inspect a PDF into a structured profile (pdf-inspect)

Inspect a PDF into a structured profile

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

Before operating on an unknown PDF, build a cheap structured profile.

Operations

• page count
• page size/orientation
• metadata
• fonts
• image count
• links
• annotations
• forms present
• encryption/permissions
• PDF version
• embedded files
• text layer health

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.inspect:inspect

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
• Fallback: pypdf (permission/version facts)

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)

openable; page_count>0

Related skills

pdf-read, pdf-validation, pdf-orchestrate, pdf-provenance

Example requests it handles

• "What type of document is this? How many pages?"
• "Profile this PDF: is it scanned or text?"

Notes

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