Topic · Documents & Office
Best PDF skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Handles everyday PDF jobs in Python and on the command line: extract text and tables, merge, split, rotate, watermark, fill forms, encrypt and OCR. | anthropics/ | 180k | 48 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Proprietary | 2 days ago |
| 2 | Gives the agent command-line and Python recipes for reading, creating, merging and splitting PDF files, plus tips for large and scanned documents. | shareAI-lab/ | 78k | 5 repos | ~646 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 3 | Convert files and office documents to Markdown. An agent skill from ImCa0/just-laws. | ImCa0/ | 781 | 14 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 8 days ago |
| 4 | 微信公众号文章排版引擎，将 Markdown 转换为可直接粘贴到公众号编辑器的 HTML。主题风格从 references/theme-index.md 注册的自定义主题库中选取，自动章节编号、关键词下划线标记、引言卡片、目录导航、代码块、图片/GIF、作者签名。支持 Markdown / Word(.docx) / PDF / 纯文本输入（非 Markdown… | isjiamu/ | 3.9k | 1 repo | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| 5 | Converts PDFs, Office files, HTML, images and other documents into a unified DoclingDocument with Markdown or JSON output, through the docling CLI, Python SDK or a remote service. | docling-project/ | 68k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 6 | Derives new files from a selected part of a spreadsheet, Word document, PDF or slide deck, such as a cell range, paragraph, page or slide, without ever modifying the source file. | CherryHQ/ | 52k | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 7 | A skill your agent uses when visual quality and design identity matter for a PDF. | poco-ai/ | 1.4k | 6 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 15 days ago |
| 8 | Reads, OCRs, searches and cites local documents through the mineru CLI, covering PDF, images, Office files, EPUB, HTML and CSV. | opendatalab/ | 81k | — | ~9.4k | Automated safety check: Warn | Unknown | yesterday |
| 9 | Creates, converts, reads and edits real pptx, xlsx, docx and PDF files locally through the genoffice command line. | genspark-ai/ | 8.8k | — | ~19k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 10 | Reads, extracts from, creates, merges, splits, watermarks, encrypts and fills PDF files with pdfplumber, pypdf and reportlab inside a Python sandbox. | HKUDS/ | 41k | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 days ago |
| 11 | Answers questions from a local knowledge base folder by walking hierarchical index files and searching with grep, pdfplumber and pandas instead of loading whole files. | ConardLi/ | 714 | 2 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 12 | Best practices for working on the Harness books repo. An agent skill from wquguru/harness-books. | wquguru/ | 3.2k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 13 | Produces book-style Korean ebook PDFs from a topic or finished manuscript, with six design styles, real book parts and quality-check gates before output. | gongnyang/ | 314 | 1 repo | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 14 | Fetches web pages and PDFs and returns a source-grounded summary, clean Markdown, quotes or citations, routing each kind of link to a suitable fetch method. | tw93/ | 7.2k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 15 | 15.PDF Toolkit Deterministic PDF operations through bundled scripts: extract text and tables, merge files or page ranges, split by range, fill form fields and build PDFs from data. | TokenRhythm/ | 7.1k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 16 | Converts large PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and CSV files into markdown or CSV plus an index before the agent reads them, so tokens go to the compressed copy. | NateBJones-Projects/ | 4.7k | — | ~995 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 17 | 17.Paper2patent Turn an academic paper (PDF, LaTeX, pasted text, thesis chapter or technical disclosure) into a Chinese invention patent application draft — 说明书摘要、摘要附图、权利要求书、说明书、说明书附图 — delivered as DOCX/PDF with… | 7toCR/ | 647 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 18 | Convert laboratory instrument output files (PDF, CSV, Excel, TXT) to Allotrope Simple Model (ASM) JSON format or flattened 2D CSV. | aws-samples/ | 274 | 2 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 days ago |
| 19 | Translate books (PDF/DOCX/EPUB) into any language using parallel sub-agents. | deusyu/ | 2.1k | — | ~5.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 13 days ago |
| 20 | Translate local PDFs, including safe prose on image-only scans, into Vietnamese or another supported Latin-script language while preserving layout, formulas, tables, and figures. | breslee1707/ | 667 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0-only | 6 days ago |
| 21 | Converts files and web pages into clean Markdown, then turns Markdown into polished HTML, Word, PDF and EPUB using four templates. | alchaincyf/ | 908 | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 22 | 22.Docsagent Search and manage private, local document collections (PDF, PPTX, DOCX) offline. | docsagent/ | 625 | — | ~834 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 9 days ago |
| 23 | 23.Paper Deck 将论文、技术文章或知识内容制作成高真实感的 AIGC 幻灯片。先做叙事结构和逐页视觉导演，再调用生图模型生成每一页 16:9 slide image，最后合成为 PPTX/PDF。适合论文汇报、组会、公开课、技术分享、商业化研究展示；当用户提到“论文PPT”“AI生成PPT”“不像AI的PPT”“高质感幻灯片”“逐页生图PPT”时使用。 | zsyggg/ | 1.3k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 24 | Builds an academic conference poster as a single HTML and CSS file with measurement-based gates, real paper figures and a print-ready PDF rendered through headless Chromium. | wanshuiyin/ | 17k | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 25 | Download a paper PDF/CAJ from CNKI. An agent skill from cookjohn/cnki-skills. | cookjohn/ | 978 | 2 repos | ~841 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 26 | A skill your agent uses when Codex needs to coordinate ChatGPT, Chrome, Cloudflare tunnels, verified bridge Restart/Reboot recovery, or task routing between local code execution and ChatGPT… | Zhenyu98/ | 275 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 27 | 27.Jev SEO Full live SEO audit of any website from its homepage URL, powered by Jev (TypeSafe's System One model). | AgriciDaniel/ | 515 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 15 days ago |
| 28 | 28.Exampass 将课程资料（PPT/Word/PDF）按章节生成知识清单+原始PPT对照+自测答案+交互式章节测试，帮助高效期末复习. An agent skill from WUBING2023/ExamPass-Assistant. | WUBING2023/ | 774 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 29 | Translate English PDF books into natural Chinese with three quality modes. | Cuimao777/ | 486 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 30 | 30.Split PDF Download, split, and deeply read academic PDFs. An agent skill from scunning1975/MixtapeTools. | scunning1975/ | 469 | 2 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 31 | 31.Toxy A skill your agent uses whenever the user wants to extract text or data from documents using Toxy (the .NET text extraction library). | nissl-lab/ | 463 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 32 | Execute Python code in a safe sandboxed environment via [inference.sh](https://inference.sh). | cortega26/ | 113 | 2 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 33 | Operates the dedao-dl command-line downloader for Dedao courses, audiobooks and ebooks, with login, search, download formats and troubleshooting. | yann0917/ | 894 | — | ~772 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 34 | Replace text in fillable PDF forms by updating form field values. | instavm/ | 893 | — | ~536 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 35 | 35.Markitdown Convert various file formats (PDF, Office documents, images, audio, web content, structured data) to Markdown optimized for LLM processing. | jimmc414/ | 594 | 2 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 days ago |
| 36 | 36.Minesweeper 财报排雷工具 (Financial Report Minesweeper). An agent skill from terancejiang/financial-report-minesweeper. | terancejiang/ | 431 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 37 | 37.Lov Any2pdf Convert Markdown documents to professionally typeset PDF files with reportlab. | lovstudio/ | 211 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 38 | 38.Paper2html Convert an academic paper PDF into a publish-ready, self-contained single-page project homepage (a self-contained index.html) — the kind of paper landing page researchers host on GitHub Pages. | QuZhan51496/ | 468 | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 39 | MinerU Document Explorer — Agent-native knowledge engine. An agent skill from opendatalab/MinerU-Document-Explorer. | opendatalab/ | 638 | — | ~6.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 40 | 40.Documents Read and write real documents on the device - PDF, XLSX, DOCX, PPTX and CSV. | zhongkaifu/ | 553 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| 41 | Translates an English paper PDF, all pages or a chosen range, into a Simplified Chinese image-based PDF that keeps the original layout, figures and formulas. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 42 | A skill your agent uses when editing VibeResume templates, converting resume facts and target roles into polished one-page or two-page HTML resumes, and validating the generated PDF. | LiuMengxuan04/ | 634 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 43 | 深度调研主题并自动生成知识关系图谱PDF。接收研究主题后自动进行网络调研、信息收集、知识整理，最终生成专业的可视化关系图谱。适用于"研究...并做图"、"深度分析...并可视化"、"生成知识图谱"等场景。 | wshuyi/ | 156 | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 mo ago |
| 44 | 以证据为中心的简历真实性审计与报告生成技能。用户要求核验简历、打假履历、调查候选人经历、分析 GitHub/开源贡献、识别 contributor 到 maintainer/core author 的角色膨胀、核验中外合作办学或学校 title、检查业务指标、梳理公开争议，或者把调查结果制作成 HTML/PDF… | Claycui828/ | 369 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 45 | 45.Code2media Universal media renderer with no fixed template — any custom layout, size or style becomes pixel-perfect images (PNG/JPEG/WebP), vector SVG, paged PDFs or animations (WebP/GIF). | tsingliuwin/ | 280 | — | ~956 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 46 | 46.PDF Toolkit Reads, transforms, composes and fills PDFs with Python scripts for extraction, merging, watermarking, encryption, OCR and form filling. | XiaomiMiMo/ | 14k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| 47 | Inventory, extract, and analyze tranches of declassified UAP/UFO files — including war.gov/UFO/ "PURSUE" releases, FBI Vault, NARA boxes, and AARO publications. | ckpxgfnksd-max/ | 155 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 48 | 48.Pullmd Read any web page, document, or YouTube video as clean Markdown using PullMD. | AeternaLabsHQ/ | 486 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 16 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best PDF skill?
PDF Processing (official) from anthropics/skills ranks first of the 782 PDF skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 180k GitHub stars, 48 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come PDF Processing Guide and Markitdown.
Which PDF skills are official?
15 of the 782 PDF skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: PDF Processing, Instrument Data To Allotrope, Openai PDF, Update Legal Pdfs, PDF to Markdown Converter and 10 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.