PDF Skill
PDF Skill is a Claude Skill for pdf tools and forms, published by anthropics.
Anthropic's official Claude Skill for reading, extracting, merging, splitting, watermarking, OCRing, encrypting, and form-filling PDF files.
Is it any good?
Effectiveness · benchmark pending
We haven't benchmarked PDF Skill yet, so its score is provisional — computed from safety, maintenance, and documentation only, with popularity given no weight. When we benchmark it, we measure whether it produces materially better output than a frontier model alone, and that result leads the score. How we measure.
About PDF Skill
Description · AI-summarised from the anthropics README
The official Anthropic PDF skill triggers any time a .pdf file is mentioned or produced. It covers text and table extraction, merging and splitting, rotation, watermarking, form filling, encryption, image extraction, and OCR on scanned PDFs, using pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab, qpdf, and pdftotext.
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Install PDF Skill
Install
Install via Claude Skill
claude skills add @anthropics/anthropic-pdf-skillInstall with your AI
Zero install · paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor…
Install the "PDF Skill" skill into my project by following all instructions at https://skillsdirectory.co/s/anthropic-pdf-skill
Your assistant reads /s/anthropic-pdf-skill and follows it — fetching the files from the source, placing them, and confirming before it runs anything. No account needed. How this works.
Frequently asked
FAQ
What does PDF Skill do?
Anthropic's official Claude Skill for reading, extracting, merging, splitting, watermarking, OCRing, encrypting, and form-filling PDF files.
How do I install PDF Skill?
PDF Skill is a Claude Skill. Primary install path: claude skills add @anthropics/anthropic-pdf-skill
What is the Skill Score for PDF Skill?
PDF Skill has a Skill Score of 7.7/10 (High Quality). It is currently a provisional score — PDF Skill hasn't been benchmarked yet, so it weights safety 55/100 (40%), maintenance 92/100 (30%), and documentation 85/100 (30%). Popularity carries zero weight until effectiveness is measured. See methodology.
Is PDF Skill free?
PDF Skill is published under the Apache-2.0 license. See the vendor's source repository for any usage limits or paid tiers.
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