Requirements
- Target platform
- OpenClaw
- Install method
- Manual import
- Extraction
- Extract archive
- Prerequisites
- OpenClaw
- Primary doc
- SKILL.md
PDF 文档处理 | PDF Document Processing. 读取、提取、合并、分割 PDF | Read, extract, merge, split PDFs. 支持文本提取、表格识别、注释 | Supports text extraction, table recognition, annotat...
PDF 文档处理 | PDF Document Processing. 读取、提取、合并、分割 PDF | Read, extract, merge, split PDFs. 支持文本提取、表格识别、注释 | Supports text extraction, table recognition, annotat...
Hand the extracted package to your coding agent with a concrete install brief instead of figuring it out manually.
I downloaded a skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder and install it by following the included instructions. Tell me what you changed and call out any manual steps you could not complete.
I downloaded an updated skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder, compare it with my current installation, and upgrade it while preserving any custom configuration unless the package docs explicitly say otherwise. Summarize what changed and any follow-up checks I should run.
This guide covers essential PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features, JavaScript libraries, and detailed examples, see REFERENCE.md. If you need to fill out a PDF form, read FORMS.md and follow its instructions.
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter # Read a PDF reader = PdfReader("document.pdf") print(f"Pages: {len(reader.pages)}") # Extract text text = "" for page in reader.pages: text += page.extract_text()
Merge PDFs from pypdf import PdfWriter, PdfReader writer = PdfWriter() for pdf_file in ["doc1.pdf", "doc2.pdf", "doc3.pdf"]: reader = PdfReader(pdf_file) for page in reader.pages: writer.add_page(page) with open("merged.pdf", "wb") as output: writer.write(output) Split PDF reader = PdfReader("input.pdf") for i, page in enumerate(reader.pages): writer = PdfWriter() writer.add_page(page) with open(f"page_{i+1}.pdf", "wb") as output: writer.write(output) Extract Metadata reader = PdfReader("document.pdf") meta = reader.metadata print(f"Title: {meta.title}") print(f"Author: {meta.author}") print(f"Subject: {meta.subject}") print(f"Creator: {meta.creator}") Rotate Pages reader = PdfReader("input.pdf") writer = PdfWriter() page = reader.pages[0] page.rotate(90) # Rotate 90 degrees clockwise writer.add_page(page) with open("rotated.pdf", "wb") as output: writer.write(output)
Extract Text with Layout import pdfplumber with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf: for page in pdf.pages: text = page.extract_text() print(text) Extract Tables with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf: for i, page in enumerate(pdf.pages): tables = page.extract_tables() for j, table in enumerate(tables): print(f"Table {j+1} on page {i+1}:") for row in table: print(row) Advanced Table Extraction import pandas as pd with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf: all_tables = [] for page in pdf.pages: tables = page.extract_tables() for table in tables: if table: # Check if table is not empty df = pd.DataFrame(table[1:], columns=table[0]) all_tables.append(df) # Combine all tables if all_tables: combined_df = pd.concat(all_tables, ignore_index=True) combined_df.to_excel("extracted_tables.xlsx", index=False)
Basic PDF Creation from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas c = canvas.Canvas("hello.pdf", pagesize=letter) width, height = letter # Add text c.drawString(100, height - 100, "Hello World!") c.drawString(100, height - 120, "This is a PDF created with reportlab") # Add a line c.line(100, height - 140, 400, height - 140) # Save c.save() Create PDF with Multiple Pages from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Spacer, PageBreak from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet doc = SimpleDocTemplate("report.pdf", pagesize=letter) styles = getSampleStyleSheet() story = [] # Add content title = Paragraph("Report Title", styles['Title']) story.append(title) story.append(Spacer(1, 12)) body = Paragraph("This is the body of the report. " * 20, styles['Normal']) story.append(body) story.append(PageBreak()) # Page 2 story.append(Paragraph("Page 2", styles['Heading1'])) story.append(Paragraph("Content for page 2", styles['Normal'])) # Build PDF doc.build(story) Subscripts and Superscripts IMPORTANT: Never use Unicode subscript/superscript characters (₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉, ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹) in ReportLab PDFs. The built-in fonts do not include these glyphs, causing them to render as solid black boxes. Instead, use ReportLab's XML markup tags in Paragraph objects: from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet styles = getSampleStyleSheet() # Subscripts: use <sub> tag chemical = Paragraph("H<sub>2</sub>O", styles['Normal']) # Superscripts: use <super> tag squared = Paragraph("x<super>2</super> + y<super>2</super>", styles['Normal']) For canvas-drawn text (not Paragraph objects), manually adjust font the size and position rather than using Unicode subscripts/superscripts.
# Extract text pdftotext input.pdf output.txt # Extract text preserving layout pdftotext -layout input.pdf output.txt # Extract specific pages pdftotext -f 1 -l 5 input.pdf output.txt # Pages 1-5
# Merge PDFs qpdf --empty --pages file1.pdf file2.pdf -- merged.pdf # Split pages qpdf input.pdf --pages . 1-5 -- pages1-5.pdf qpdf input.pdf --pages . 6-10 -- pages6-10.pdf # Rotate pages qpdf input.pdf output.pdf --rotate=+90:1 # Rotate page 1 by 90 degrees # Remove password qpdf --password=mypassword --decrypt encrypted.pdf decrypted.pdf
# Merge pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output merged.pdf # Split pdftk input.pdf burst # Rotate pdftk input.pdf rotate 1east output rotated.pdf
# Requires: pip install pytesseract pdf2image import pytesseract from pdf2image import convert_from_path # Convert PDF to images images = convert_from_path('scanned.pdf') # OCR each page text = "" for i, image in enumerate(images): text += f"Page {i+1}:\n" text += pytesseract.image_to_string(image) text += "\n\n" print(text)
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter # Create watermark (or load existing) watermark = PdfReader("watermark.pdf").pages[0] # Apply to all pages reader = PdfReader("document.pdf") writer = PdfWriter() for page in reader.pages: page.merge_page(watermark) writer.add_page(page) with open("watermarked.pdf", "wb") as output: writer.write(output)
# Using pdfimages (poppler-utils) pdfimages -j input.pdf output_prefix # This extracts all images as output_prefix-000.jpg, output_prefix-001.jpg, etc.
from pypdf import PdfReader, PdfWriter reader = PdfReader("input.pdf") writer = PdfWriter() for page in reader.pages: writer.add_page(page) # Add password writer.encrypt("userpassword", "ownerpassword") with open("encrypted.pdf", "wb") as output: writer.write(output)
TaskBest ToolCommand/CodeMerge PDFspypdfwriter.add_page(page)Split PDFspypdfOne page per fileExtract textpdfplumberpage.extract_text()Extract tablespdfplumberpage.extract_tables()Create PDFsreportlabCanvas or PlatypusCommand line mergeqpdfqpdf --empty --pages ...OCR scanned PDFspytesseractConvert to image firstFill PDF formspdf-lib or pypdf (see FORMS.md)See FORMS.md
For advanced pypdfium2 usage, see REFERENCE.md For JavaScript libraries (pdf-lib), see REFERENCE.md If you need to fill out a PDF form, follow the instructions in FORMS.md For troubleshooting guides, see REFERENCE.md
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