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Skill stonegiantstudio/skills/skills/pdf

PDF processing router - delegates to specialized sub-skills for extraction, creation, and charting. Triggers when working with PDF files, generating reports, or creating data visualizations for print.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add stonegiantstudio/skills --skill pdf

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PDF Processing

Routes to specialized PDF skills based on the task.

Sub-Skills

Task	Skill	Use When
Extract content	`pdf-extract`	Reading PDFs, finding content, searching patterns, getting snippets with page numbers
Create documents	`pdf-create`	Generating branded PDFs, professional typography, print-ready documents
Charts & graphs	`pdf-charts`	Data visualization, reports with charts, dashboards to PDF

Quick Routing

Need to read or search a PDF? → Use pdf-extract

Find contract total price with page reference
Extract all instances of a pattern
Get text snippets with surrounding context
Analyze images within PDFs

Need to create a PDF? → Use pdf-create

Branded business documents
Professional typography (margins, spacing, kerning)
Print-production quality output
Multi-page reports with consistent styling

Need charts or graphs in a PDF? → Use pdf-charts

Bar charts, line graphs, scatter plots
Dashboards and data reports
Export visualizations to print-ready format

When to Use Official Anthropic PDF Skill

For basic operations, the anthropics/skills pdf skill handles:

Simple text extraction (no context needed)
Merge/split PDFs
Rotate pages
Fill PDF forms

Install with: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

Common Dependencies

# Python - extraction
pip install pypdf pdfplumber pypdfium2

# Python - creation
pip install reportlab weasyprint

# Python - charts
pip install matplotlib seaborn plotly

# Node.js - server-side
npm install pdf-lib @react-pdf/renderer chart.js

# Node.js - client-side HTML→PDF (use html2canvas-pro for Tailwind v4 oklch support)
npm install html2canvas-pro jspdf