Directory / Anthropic Agent Skills / pdf
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.Description from the SKILL.md front matter.
Install
Add the marketplace (once, in Claude Code)
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skillsInstall the document-skills bundle that contains it
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skillsOr with GitHub CLI v2.90+ (any supported agent)
gh skill install anthropics/skills pdfCommands follow each host's documentation (Claude Code, Claude.ai, Claude API docs). gh skill needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later and is in public preview.
- Catalog
- Anthropic Agent Skills (
anthropic-agent-skills) - Author
- Anthropic
- Source code
- anthropics/skills
- License
- Proprietary. LICENSE.txt has complete terms
- Repository stars
- 182,130 for anthropics/skills (the whole catalog repo)
- Added to catalog
- 2025-12-01
- Last change
- 2026-02-06
- Installed via bundle
document-skills
What it contains
- Skills: 1
Similar in Documents & office files
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- convert-excel-to-md (Awesome Copilot skill)
- convert-pdf-to-md (Awesome Copilot skill)