From ms-office-suite
Reads, creates, merges, splits, and edits PDF files, including text and table extraction, form filling, OCR on scanned documents, and watermarking. Activates when the user works with .pdf files or requests any PDF manipulation task.
npx claudepluginhub jawhnycooke/claude-plugins --plugin ms-office-suiteThis skill uses the workspace's default tool permissions.
This guide covers essential PDF operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features and JavaScript libraries, see [reference.md](references/reference.md). For PDF form completion, see [forms.md](references/forms.md).
Processes PDFs: extracts text/tables with pdfplumber, merges/splits/rotates with pypdf, extracts metadata. For generating PDFs or filling forms via referenced guides.
Processes PDFs: extracts text/tables, merges/splits documents, fills forms, creates PDFs, adds annotations/watermarks using Python (pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab) and CLI tools. For PDF manipulation tasks.
Processes PDFs: extracts text/tables with pdfplumber, merges/splits/rotates/extracts metadata with pypdf, handles forms. For Python-based PDF generation/analysis.
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This guide covers essential PDF operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features and JavaScript libraries, see reference.md. For PDF form completion, see forms.md.
| Task | Tool | Command/Method |
|---|---|---|
| Read text | pdfplumber | page.extract_text() |
| Extract tables | pdfplumber | page.extract_tables() |
| Merge PDFs | pypdf | PdfMerger().append() |
| Split pages | pypdf | PdfWriter().add_page() |
| Create PDF | reportlab | canvas.Canvas() |
| Text extraction (CLI) | pdftotext | pdftotext -layout file.pdf |
| Merge/split (CLI) | qpdf | qpdf --pages |
| OCR scanned docs | pytesseract | image_to_string() |
import pdfplumber
with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
for page in pdf.pages:
text = page.extract_text()
print(text)
import pdfplumber
import pandas as pd
with pdfplumber.open("report.pdf") as pdf:
tables = []
for page in pdf.pages:
page_tables = page.extract_tables()
for table in page_tables:
df = pd.DataFrame(table[1:], columns=table[0])
tables.append(df)
# Export to Excel
with pd.ExcelWriter("output.xlsx") as writer:
for i, df in enumerate(tables):
df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name=f"Table_{i+1}", index=False)
from pypdf import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
info = reader.metadata
print(f"Title: {info.title}")
print(f"Author: {info.author}")
print(f"Pages: {len(reader.pages)}")
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
c = canvas.Canvas("output.pdf", pagesize=letter)
c.setFont("Helvetica", 12)
c.drawString(100, 750, "Hello, World!")
c.save()
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Spacer
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
doc = SimpleDocTemplate("report.pdf", pagesize=letter)
styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
story = []
story.append(Paragraph("Report Title", styles['Heading1']))
story.append(Spacer(1, 12))
story.append(Paragraph("This is the body text.", styles['Normal']))
doc.build(story)
from pypdf import PdfMerger
merger = PdfMerger()
merger.append("file1.pdf")
merger.append("file2.pdf")
merger.append("file3.pdf")
merger.write("merged.pdf")
merger.close()
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
for i, page in enumerate(reader.pages):
writer = PdfWriter()
writer.add_page(page)
writer.write(f"page_{i+1}.pdf")
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
writer = PdfWriter()
# Extract pages 5-10 (0-indexed)
for page_num in range(4, 10):
writer.add_page(reader.pages[page_num])
writer.write("extracted.pdf")
# Extract text with layout preservation
pdftotext -layout document.pdf output.txt
# Extract specific pages
pdftotext -f 1 -l 5 document.pdf output.txt
# Output to stdout
pdftotext document.pdf -
# Merge PDFs
qpdf --empty --pages file1.pdf file2.pdf -- merged.pdf
# Extract pages 1-5
qpdf document.pdf --pages . 1-5 -- extracted.pdf
# Rotate pages
qpdf document.pdf --rotate=90:1-5 rotated.pdf
# Remove password
qpdf --password=secret --decrypt protected.pdf unlocked.pdf
# Merge
pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output merged.pdf
# Split
pdftk document.pdf burst output page_%d.pdf
# Rotate
pdftk document.pdf cat 1-5east output rotated.pdf
from pdf2image import convert_from_path
import pytesseract
# Convert PDF pages to images
images = convert_from_path("scanned.pdf", dpi=300)
# OCR each page
text = ""
for image in images:
text += pytesseract.image_to_string(image)
print(text)
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
watermark = PdfReader("watermark.pdf")
writer = PdfWriter()
for page in reader.pages:
page.merge_page(watermark.pages[0])
writer.add_page(page)
writer.write("watermarked.pdf")
# Using pdfimages (from poppler-utils)
pdfimages -png document.pdf images/
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter
reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
writer = PdfWriter()
for page in reader.pages:
writer.add_page(page)
writer.encrypt("userpassword", "ownerpassword")
writer.write("protected.pdf")
Install required packages:
# Python libraries
pip install pypdf pdfplumber reportlab pdf2image pytesseract pandas openpyxl
# System tools (macOS)
brew install poppler tesseract qpdf
# System tools (Ubuntu/Debian)
apt-get install poppler-utils tesseract-ocr qpdf