name: pdf-processing
description: Extracts text from PDF files using PyPDF2.

PDF Processing Skill

When to use this skill

Use this skill when a user needs to extract text from a PDF file.

How to Use this Skill

This skill provides the extract_text() function from the parse_pdf.py script. Import it into your agent script:

python
from skills.pdf_parsing.parse_pdf import extract_text

result = extract_text(
file_path="/path/to/document.pdf",
pages="all" # or "1-3" or "1,2,3"
)

Parameters

• file_path (str): Path to the PDF file
• pages (str): Pages to extract - "all", "1-3" (range), or "1,2,3" (specific pages)

Returns

JSON object with:
- success (bool): Whether extraction succeeded
- file_path (str): Path to the processed file
- total_pages (int): Total pages in PDF
- extracted_pages (int): Number of pages extracted
- pages (list): Array of {page: number, text: string} objects

Alternatively, you can call the script directly from the command line:
command
uv run ./skills/pdf-parsing/parse_pdf.py extract_text --file_path /path/to/file.pdf --pages all