chinese-pdf-document-workflows

chinese-pdf-document-workflows is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidtoby/agent-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (507 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for extracting, converting, editing, and producing polished Chinese PDF documents from sources such as papers, webpages, Office files, transcripts, and scanned documents. It includes OCR, which reads text from images, and checks that Chinese characters render correctly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract content from PDFs, convert source files, summarize academic papers, create Chinese reports, handle scanned documents, and verify finished PDFs.
Why use it?
It helps preserve structure and citations while avoiding missing text, broken characters, and poor formatting in Chinese document output.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to extract content from PDFs, convert source files, summarize academic papers, create Chinese reports, handle scanned documents, and verify finished PDFs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/chinese-pdf-document-workflows
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.

Any agent
npx skills add davidtoby/agent-skills --skill chinese-pdf-document-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidtoby/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 507 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00083 $0.00507
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00051

Measured 5d ago against content hash efcc8c37331b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chinese-pdf-document-workflows 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 5d ago.

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.

skills/curated/chinese-pdf-document-workflows/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chinese PDF and Document Workflows

Use this umbrella whenever the work centers on document extraction, document conversion, or polished Chinese PDF output.

Core workflow

  1. Determine the input type: PDF, scanned PDF/image, markdown, HTML, DOCX/PPTX/XLSX, transcript, or paper.
  2. Extract source content with the least lossy method:
    • digital PDF text/table extraction first;
    • OCR fallback for scans or image-only pages;
    • markitdown/document converters for Office/HTML/structured files.
  3. Preserve citations, page numbers, section headings, figures/tables, and source URLs.
  4. Build a Chinese deliverable with explicit structure: executive summary, key insights, evidence, implications, limitations, and next actions when relevant.
  5. Render with reliable Chinese fonts; avoid browser/PDF renderers that garble CJK glyphs.
  6. Verify the PDF visually/textually: Chinese characters render, no tofu boxes, page breaks are acceptable, and filenames are stable.

Labeled playbooks

Professional Chinese PDF rendering

Use ReportLab or another CJK-safe pipeline. Register known-good Chinese fonts on macOS/Linux and test a short sample before rendering a long report.

Academic paper to Chinese insight report

Extract title, authors, abstract, methodology, claims, evidence, limitations, and contribution. Translate/summarize into fluent Chinese and add independent interpretation rather than only a literal translation.

Consulting report from YouTube/transcripts

Combine transcript evidence with a consulting-style structure: context, key points, strategic implications, recommendations, and appendix timestamps.

PDF extraction and annotation

For tables/images/metadata, choose a PDF-specific extractor before generic text conversion. Use OCR only as fallback and label OCR uncertainty.

Natural-language PDF edits

For small PDF edits, prefer a purpose-built PDF edit CLI. Always make a backup and inspect the resulting PDF.

Reference files

Legacy narrow skill bodies are demoted to references/from-*.md for exact commands, fonts, and historical report templates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 47 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A efcc8c37331b

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chinese-pdf-document-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidtoby/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 507 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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