What it does
A skill for working with PDFs: reading and extracting text and tables, creating new files, merging and splitting, rotating pages, watermarks, form filling, encryption and decryption, image extraction, and OCR of scans (making them text-based and searchable). A pre-built Anthropic skill.
How to set it up
- claude.ai / Claude API — pre-built (
skill_idpdfincontainer). - Claude Code — via the
document-skillsbundle:
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
When to reach for it
- Merge a stack of PDFs into one, pull out tables, fill in a form, OCR a scan.
- Generate a clean PDF report.
- Encrypt, decrypt or watermark a file.
Example
"Merge these 3 PDFs, add page numbers and run OCR" — you get one searchable document. For interactive markup and signing on a canvas there is a separate pdf-viewer skill.