Photo To Scanned PDF

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve PDF
• Tasks that involve Word documents

Example prompts

• “把照片 做成扫描件”
• “photos to scanned PDF”
• “make this look scanned”
• “/photo-to-scanned-pdf”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Dependencies
2. 2Rectify
3. 3Order by content, detect colored paper (agent judgment)
4. 4Enhance (noteshrink, split by paper color)
5. 5Assemble
6. 6Verify the WHOLE document (mandatory, not optional)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0e52df5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 4 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • uv
  • uvx
  • brew

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use uv and uvx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Photo To Scanned PDF loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 256 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,006 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~256

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from daymade/claude-code-skills at commit 0e52df5, republished under its MIT licence (© daymade). 1,006 words, ~2,340 tokens.

name

photo-to-scanned-pdf

description

Two pipelines ending at a scanner-look PDF. (1) Phone photos of paper documents (contracts, stamped certificates, receipts, forms, handwritten notes) → clean scanner-quality PDF: perspective rectification + noteshrink whitening + A4 assembly + mandatory whole-document check. Trigger: "把照片 做成扫描件", "photos to scanned PDF", "make this look scanned", "手机拍的 文档转 PDF", "盖章文件扫描", replacing pages in an existing scanned PDF, any CamScanner-like request. (2) A digital document with no signature yet (rendered docx/PDF, confirmation form, contract draft) → make it look hand-signed and scanned: synthesize a handwriting-style signature, composite it onto the signature line, apply the same scan-look post-processing. Trigger: "帮我做个手写签名", "生成签名盖到这份文件上", "做成签过字的扫描件", "synthesize a signature", any request for a document that needs to look signed without a real photographed signature. Do NOT hand-roll levels/contrast enhancement for scan-look — tried and rejected twice; this skill's pipeline is the proven one.

disable-model-invocation

true

photos ──► rectify (photo_to_scan.py --raw)
       ──► ORDER BY CONTENT, detect colored paper   ← agent eyes, not filenames
       ──► enhance: noteshrink (white batch with -g │ colored pages separately,
                                after white-balance pre-pass)
       ──► assemble_pdf.py → A4 PDF
       ──► make_contact_sheet.py → READ IT, verify EVERY page   ← mandatory

which pdftoppm || brew install poppler   # contact sheet + any PDF rendering
uvx noteshrink --help | head -3          # first run builds it (~30 s)

uv run <skill>/scripts/photo_to_scan.py --raw --out-dir work --prefix page \
    photo1.jpg photo2.jpg ...

uvx noteshrink -w -g -K -q -b ns -c "true" page_03.jpg page_01.jpg page_07.jpg ...
# inputs IN FINAL PAGE ORDER → outputs ns0000.png, ns0001.png, ... in that order

uv run <skill>/scripts/photo_to_scan.py --out-dir work --prefix wb colored_photo.jpg   # no --raw
uvx noteshrink -w -g -K -q -b nc -c "true" work/wb_01.jpg

uv run <skill>/scripts/assemble_pdf.py --out scanned.pdf \
    ns0000.png ns0001.png nc0000.png ns0002.png ...   # FINAL page order

uv run <skill>/scripts/make_contact_sheet.py scanned.pdf --out contact.png

© daymade, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (scripts, references) in daymade-docs/photo-to-scanned-pdf of daymade/claude-code-skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/digital-signature-synthesis.md
• scripts/assemble_pdf.py
• scripts/make_contact_sheet.py
• scripts/photo_to_scan.py
• scripts/synthesize_signature.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0e52df5