pdf

pdf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from decocms/studio. It costs 29 tokens per session (203 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for extracting text from PDF files one page at a time. PDFs are fixed-layout documents commonly used for reports, papers, manuals, and forms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read or summarize uploaded PDF documents and inspect their page-by-page text.
Why use it?
It removes the need to copy text manually from a PDF. It also makes clear that image-only scanned PDFs will not produce text because this tool does not perform OCR, which reads text from images.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to read or summarize uploaded PDF documents and inspect their page-by-page text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/decocms/studio/pdf
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 decocms/studio --skill pdf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/decocms/studio

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/decocms/studio/pdf/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/decocms/studio/pdf)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 203 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00029 $0.00203
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00081
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 14d ago against content hash 5de81b27e6f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf 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 14d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (extract.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.

packages/sandbox/image/skills/pdf/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

pdf — PDF documents

Use this skill to read text from .pdf files.

Scripts

extract.py

Print text content from a .pdf, page by page.

python /app/org/public/core/pdf/extract.py <path-to-file.pdf>

Output is plain text with --- page N --- separators. PDFs that are pure scans (image-only, no embedded text layer) will produce empty pages — OCR is not performed.

Direct pypdf usage

For metadata, structure, splitting, merging, or filling forms, import pypdf directly. The library is preinstalled.

from pypdf import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("/path/to/file.pdf")
for page in reader.pages:
    text = page.extract_text()
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. 14d ago Changed 5de81b27e6f5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 654bcb9890ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf is a skill published in the GitHub repository decocms/studio (409 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 203 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.