pdf-processing

A guide for working with PDF files, including reading their text and tables, completing forms, and combining documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract text or tables, fill PDF forms, merge files, and summarize extracted content.
Why use it?
It removes the need to handle PDF content manually when information must be extracted or documents must be prepared.

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/itlackey/akm/pdf-processing
Any agent
npx skills add itlackey/akm --skill pdf-processing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itlackey/akm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 116 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 $0.00037 $0.00116
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00058
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00012

Measured yesterday against content hash 66d6bdadd992, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-processing 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 yesterday.

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.

tests/fixtures/bundles/agent-skills/pdf-processing/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

PDF processing

Instructions

Use pdfplumber to extract text. For advanced form filling, see FORMS.md.

Examples

Extract page 1 text, then summarize it.

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. yesterday First seen · 20 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 66d6bdadd992

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-processing is a skill published in the GitHub repository itlackey/akm (55 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 116 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.