Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.
Why use this skill?
Master PDF manipulation with the OpenClaw PDF skill. Effortlessly extract data, merge, split, and generate documents using Python automation.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/seanphan/pdf-2What This Skill Does
The PDF skill is a versatile, comprehensive toolkit designed for the OpenClaw AI agent to interact with, transform, and extract data from Portable Document Format (PDF) files. It leverages industry-standard Python libraries including pypdf, pdfplumber, and reportlab to offer a suite of high-level operations. Users can rely on this skill to automate complex document workflows, such as parsing large datasets contained in tables, merging disparate report files into a unified document, splitting massive volumes into manageable chunks, rotating pages for readability, and extracting metadata for indexing. Furthermore, the skill enables the programmatic generation of new PDF documents using reportlab, allowing for custom report formatting and dynamic document creation from scratch.
Installation
To install this skill, use the following command in your OpenClaw terminal or environment:
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/seanphan/pdf-2
Ensure you have the required Python dependencies pre-installed in your environment, specifically pypdf, pdfplumber, pandas, and reportlab.
Use Cases
- Automated Data Extraction: Quickly scrape tabular financial data from scanned reports and convert them into clean Excel sheets using
pdfplumberandpandas. - Document Assembly: Batch process and merge hundreds of invoice PDFs into a single consolidated file for archiving.
- Form Processing: Programmatically identify and populate interactive PDF forms with dynamic data.
- Content Sanitization: Rotate, reorder, or split sensitive pages out of larger documents to prepare them for specific distribution requirements.
- Report Generation: Automatically create professional-looking PDF summaries directly from raw analytical output.
Example Prompts
- "Please scan the 50-page financial report named 'Q3_Earnings.pdf' and extract all tables into a single Excel file for me to review."
- "I have three separate project briefs in PDF format. Can you merge them into one cohesive document and title the metadata correctly?"
- "Rotate the first page of 'manual.pdf' 90 degrees clockwise and split every page into individual files saved in a new folder."
Tips & Limitations
When dealing with PDF extraction, remember that the accuracy of text and table extraction often depends on the source PDF's quality—OCR-scanned images without embedded text layers may yield lower accuracy than digital-born PDFs. For complex form-filling, ensure the form fields are standard Adobe-compatible objects. If you encounter errors, verify that the file path is correct and the file is not password-protected. Always check the reference.md file in the source repository for edge cases regarding encrypted files or non-standard page encodings.
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"plugins": {
"official-seanphan-pdf-2": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
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Flags: file-read, file-write, code-execution
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