PDF files

You already know pypdf, pdfplumber and reportlab. This skill adds what they don't give you: form-filling scripts that check their own input, a way to see pages as a reader will, and the PDF behaviours that silently put content in the wrong place.

Running scripts

<skill> is the directory containing this file. Run bundled scripts by absolute path from the user's working directory, so relative paths to their files keep working:

uv run <skill>/scripts/convert_pdf_to_images.py report.pdf pages

Run Python you write with its dependencies declared, either uv run --with pypdf script.py or a PEP 723 header. Rendering pages needs poppler (pdftoppm); OCR also needs Tesseract.

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