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name: pdf-processing description: Extract text and tables from PDF files, fill PDF forms, and merge multiple PDFs. Use when working with PDF documents or when the user mentions PDFs, forms, or document extraction. license: Apache-2.0 metadata: author: example-org version: "1.0"

PDF Processing

When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user needs to work with PDF files, including:

• Extracting text or tables from PDF documents
• Filling out PDF forms programmatically
• Merging multiple PDF files into one
• Splitting PDF files into separate documents

How to extract text

1. Use pdfplumber for text extraction:

   Copyimport pdfplumber
   with pdfplumber.open('document.pdf') as pdf:
       text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text()
   

How to fill forms

1. Use PyPDF2 to fill form fields:

   Copyfrom PyPDF2 import PdfReader, PdfWriter
   reader = PdfReader('form.pdf')
   writer = PdfWriter()
   # Fill fields here
   

How to merge documents

See the reference guide for details.