pdf-reader

A tool for extracting text and metadata from PDF files, which are documents that preserve page layout for sharing or printing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps read, parse, and analyze PDF documents with a provided Python script.
Why use it?
It saves you from manually copying content from PDFs and lets you select page ranges or limit the amount of extracted text.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alibaba/anolisa/pdf-reader
Any agent
npx skills add alibaba/anolisa --skill pdf-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alibaba/anolisa

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 138 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00019 $0.00138
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00069
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00014

Measured 3d ago against content hash 06bf029e2def, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-reader scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/read_pdf.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/os-skills/others/pdf-reader/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

PDF Reader

Run scripts/read_pdf.py relative to this skill's directory.

python3 SKILL_DIR/scripts/read_pdf.py -f <pdf_path> [options]

Options: -p "1-5,7" page range, --format json structured output, --metadata include doc info, -m 8000 max chars.

Setup: pip install PyMuPDF

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 21 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 06bf029e2def

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository alibaba/anolisa (614 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 138 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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