pdf-extract-create-workflow

pdf-extract-create-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/OpenSpace. It costs 22 tokens per session (4,313 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for downloading PDFs, extracting their text, and creating new structured PDF files from processed data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve PDFs from websites or disk, read their contents, and generate new PDFs with reportlab.
Why use it?
It helps when PDF downloads are blocked, text extraction fails, or source data must be turned into a formatted document.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to retrieve PDFs from websites or disk, read their contents, and generate new PDFs with reportlab.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/openspace/pdf-download-extract-fallback-enhanced-29b2f4
About the project

OpenSpace is a skill-management layer for AI agents that stores, retrieves, evaluates, shares, and improves reusable workflows. It is intended for people using multiple coding agents who want skills to be reused and refined based on task outcomes. The catalogue provides 200 skills for use with OpenSpace and the agents it supports.

HKUDS/OpenSpace · 7,565 stars · on GitHub

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 HKUDS/OpenSpace --skill pdf-download-extract-fallback-enhanced-29b2f4
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,313 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00022 $0.04313
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.02157
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00863
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00431

Measured 8d ago against content hash c801e20ebab9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-extract-create-workflow scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Many PDF hosting sites use JavaScript-based redirects or block automated requests. Use curl with a realistic browser user-agent:
benchmarks/gdpval/skills/pdf-download-extract-fallback-enhanced-29b2f4/SKILL.md · 571 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 571 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDF Extract and Create Workflow

This skill provides a complete PDF lifecycle workflow for acquiring PDF documents from web sources or local files, extracting their text content, AND generating new structured PDFs from processed data—with multiple fallback mechanisms throughout.

Overview

When working with PDFs, you may need to:

  1. Download PDFs from web sources (with anti-bot protection)
  2. Extract text content from PDFs (with fallback strategies)
  3. Generate new PDFs from processed data (with professional formatting)

This workflow ensures maximum success rate through progressive fallback strategies for extraction and templated approaches for generation.

Entry Point: Determine Your Starting Point

Before beginning, identify your scenario:

Scenario Start Here Skip
PDF already on local disk Step 2 (Verify File Type) Step 1 (Download)
PDF at a web URL Step 1 (Download) None
Need to CREATE a PDF from data Mode C (Generate) Modes A & B
Need to extract AND create Mode A/B → Mode C None

Mode A: Web URL Download

Step 1: Download PDF with Browser User-Agent

Many PDF hosting sites use JavaScript-based redirects or block automated requests. Use curl with a realistic browser user-agent:

curl -L -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" -o output.pdf "URL_HERE"

Key flags:

  • -L: Follow redirects
  • -A: Set user-agent header to mimic a real browser
  • -o: Specify output filename

Additional headers for difficult sites:

curl -L \
  -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36" \
  -H "Accept: application/pdf,*/*" \
  -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9" \
  -H "Connection: keep-alive" \
  -o output.pdf "URL_HERE"

Mode B: Local File Processing & Extraction

If you already have the PDF file locally, skip Step 1 and begin here:

Read the full file on GitHub · 571 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 571 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c801e20ebab9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-extract-create-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/OpenSpace (7,565 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 4,313 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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