pdf Agent Skills - Data & Analytics

🎯 What is PDF?

A comprehensive toolkit for manipulating PDF files including text and table extraction, document creation, merging, splitting, and form handling. Designed for scalable automated PDF processing.

⚡ Key Features

• Extract text and tables with layout retention using pdfplumber
• Create and edit PDFs with reportlab and pypdf
• Merge, split, rotate, and watermark PDF pages
• Command-line tool support (qpdf, pdftotext, pdftk) for versatile operations
• OCR integration for scanned document text extraction
• PDF form filling and password protection

🛠️ Tech Stack

Uses Python libraries pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab, pytesseract for OCR, and command-line utilities like qpdf, pdftotext, and pdftk.

📋 Installation

Install Python libraries via pip (`pypdf`, `pdfplumber`, `reportlab`, `pytesseract`, `pdf2image`). Setup poppler-utils for pdftotext and pdfimages commands. Refer to LICENSE for terms.

⚠️ Important Notes

Proprietary license applies. Handling scanned documents requires OCR setup. Form filling guided by additional documentation (forms.md).

❓ Common Issues

Ensure dependencies like poppler and Tesseract OCR are installed for full feature use. Coordinate between Python and CLI tools carefully for best performance.