Skill

PDF skill

The PDF skill is one of four document skills in Anthropic's skills repository, covering PDF reading, merging, splitting, creation and form filling.

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Checked 2026-10-31

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Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

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The PDF skill is one of four document skills in Anthropic's skills repository, covering PDF reading, merging, splitting, creation and form filling. Its SKILL.md uses pypdf for merging, splitting, rotating and metadata, pdfplumber for text and table extraction, reportlab for creating PDFs, the command-line tools qpdf and pdftotext, and pytesseract for OCR. The folder holds SKILL.md, forms.md, reference.md and scripts for form fields. The README gives /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills as the Claude Code install route. The folder's LICENSE.txt is not an open source licence: use is governed by your agreement with Anthropic, or else Anthropic's standard terms, and users may not copy the materials outside the Services, make derivative works, distribute them or reverse engineer them. The README calls these skills source-available. The repository was last pushed on 28 October 2026. It suits people who want an agent to handle routine PDF chores on local files. A limit is that it is a set of instructions over Python libraries, so those tools must be present where the agent runs. We have not run it ourselves for this note.

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Questions

How do I install PDF skill?

Run this command: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills. The install box on this page has the command for each agent it works with.

Is PDF skill free?

It is published under the Proprietary licence.

Who maintains PDF skill?

It is maintained by Anthropic, as the official add-on for its service. The code is at github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/pdf.

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