Official · by Anthropic
PDF Claude skill
The PDF skill lets an AI assistant read, merge, divide, and modify PDF documents.
- Proprietary (source available) licence
- ★ 182,168 on GitHub (whole repository)
- Verified against its source 19 Oct 2026
What the PDF skill does
The assistant can pull text and tables out of PDF documents, combine or divide them, turn pages, apply watermarks, generate new PDF files, complete PDF forms, password-protect or unlock them, extract embedded images, and perform optical character recognition on image-based scans so their text becomes searchable. It should be invoked any time a person needs to work with PDF documents in any way.
What it covers
- Extract text and tables from PDFs
- Merge multiple PDFs into one
- Split PDFs apart
- Rotate pages
- Add watermarks
- Create new PDFs
- Fill PDF forms
- Encrypt and decrypt PDFs
- Extract images
- OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable
How to install it
In Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills