Document text extraction

Skill cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench/skills/b1-one-shot-gemini-3.1-pro-preview/organize-messy-files/document-text-extraction

Extracts text from PDF, DOCX, and PPTX files using Python.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench --skill document-text-extraction

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SKILL.md

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Document Text Extraction

Use libraries like PyMuPDF (fitz), python-docx, and python-pptx to extract text from documents.

Installation

pip install PyMuPDF python-docx python-pptx

Python Code Examples

PDF Extraction

import fitz

def extract_pdf(file_path):
    doc = fitz.open(file_path)
    text = ""
    # Just read the first few pages to save time/memory for classification
    for page in doc[:3]:
        text += page.get_text()
    return text

DOCX Extraction

from docx import Document

def extract_docx(file_path):
    doc = Document(file_path)
    return "\n".join([p.text for p in doc.paragraphs[:50]])

PPTX Extraction

from pptx import Presentation

def extract_pptx(file_path):
    prs = Presentation(file_path)
    text = ""
    for slide in prs.slides[:5]:
        for shape in slide.shapes:
            if hasattr(shape, "text"):
                text += shape.text + "\n"
    return text

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.