pdf-resizer

pdf-resizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share. It costs 64 tokens per session (2,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for resizing and optimizing scanned PDF pages while keeping their content readable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on scanned textbooks, worksheets, exams, or batches of irregularly sized PDFs that need consistent page dimensions.
Why use it?
It detects the page content, removes unwanted borders and scan noise, adds suitable margins, standardizes dimensions, and reduces file size.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it on scanned textbooks, worksheets, exams, or batches of irregularly sized PDFs that need consistent page dimensions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share/pdf-resizer
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 joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share --skill pdf-resizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,271 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 $0.00064 $0.02271
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01136
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00227

Measured 9d ago against content hash 59fa9e4df3ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-resizer 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/batch_process.py, scripts/compress_pdf.py, scripts/resize_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.

claude/skills/pdf-resizer/SKILL.md · 343 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 343 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDF Resizer

Overview

This skill provides intelligent PDF resizing capabilities using advanced content detection algorithms. It automatically crops scanned PDFs to remove borders and noise, resizes content to target dimensions while maintaining aspect ratio, applies natural margins for readability, and compresses output files for optimal file size.

The skill uses a Dual-Masking Strategy that separately detects text and horizontal lines to ensure no content is lost during the cropping process, making it particularly effective for educational materials like exam papers and worksheets.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Resizing scanned PDF documents (exams, worksheets, textbooks) to standardized dimensions
  • Processing multiple PDF files with consistent sizing requirements
  • Optimizing PDF file sizes while maintaining visual quality
  • Debugging content detection issues with visualization tools
  • Converting irregularly-sized scans to uniform page sizes

Common user requests include:

  • "Resize this PDF to [dimensions]"
  • "Process all PDFs in this folder with the same settings"
  • "Show me what content areas are being detected"
  • "Optimize these exam papers for distribution"

Quick Start

Default Configuration

The skill operates with these default settings:

  • Target size: 773.76 x 1119.6 points (standard exam paper size)
  • DPI: 300 (high quality for text/formulas)
  • Natural margin: 5% of canvas size (automatic scaling)
  • Compression: Ghostscript /ebook preset (~70% size reduction)

These settings can be modified in the script configuration section.

Basic Workflow

For single PDF:

  1. Run resize_pdf.py on the input PDF
  2. Optionally compress with Ghostscript or use the built-in compression

For batch processing:

  1. Configure input/output directories in batch_process.py
  2. Run batch processing script
  3. Monitor progress as files are processed sequentially

Single File Processing

Standard Resize

To resize a single PDF file:

Read the full file on GitHub · 343 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 343 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 59fa9e4df3ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-resizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,271 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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