pdf is an agent skill published by anthropic. It lives in the anthropics/skills repository, which has 183,845 GitHub stars; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
This tool processes PDF files, supporting operations such as reading, extracting text or tables, combining, merging, splitting, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling forms, encrypting or decrypting, extracting images, and OCR for scanned PDFs.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads anthropics/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add anthropics/skills
Maintenance
Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
Common questions about pdf
- What does pdf do?
- This tool processes PDF files, supporting operations such as reading, extracting text or tables, combining, merging, splitting, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling forms, encrypting or decrypting, extracting images, and OCR for scanned PDFs.
- How do I install pdf?
- Run npx skills add anthropics/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes pdf?
- anthropic.
- Is pdf maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 183,845 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-09. We did not find a declared licence, so check the repository before you rely on it.