ocr-and-documents

ocr-and-documents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kevinnft/ai-agent-skills. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,469 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ocr-and-documents, MIT.

A tool for extracting text and other content from PDF files and scanned documents. OCR means recognizing printed words in images so they can be searched or copied.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert PDFs into text, read scanned documents, extract tables and images, and process documents in batches.
Why use it?
It makes documents readable and usable when their content is stored as a scan, PDF layout, table, equation, or image.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to convert PDFs into text, read scanned documents, extract tables and images, and process documents in batches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kevinnft/ai-agent-skills/ocr-and-documents
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 kevinnft/ai-agent-skills --skill ocr-and-documents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kevinnft/ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,469 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 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00021 $0.01469
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00734
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00147

Measured 9d ago against content hash c752ea528c3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ocr-and-documents 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 2 executable files (scripts/extract_marker.py, scripts/extract_pymupdf.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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to ocr-and-documents — 24 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/productivity/ocr-and-documents/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDF & Document Extraction

For DOCX: use python-docx (parses actual document structure, far better than OCR). For PPTX: see the powerpoint skill (uses python-pptx with full slide/notes support). This skill covers PDFs and scanned documents.

Step 1: Remote URL Available?

If the document has a URL, always try web_extract first:

web_extract(urls=["https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03300"])
web_extract(urls=["https://example.com/report.pdf"])

This handles PDF-to-markdown conversion via Firecrawl with no local dependencies.

Only use local extraction when: the file is local, web_extract fails, or you need batch processing.

Step 2: Choose Local Extractor

Feature pymupdf (~25MB) marker-pdf (~3-5GB)
Text-based PDF
Scanned PDF (OCR) ✅ (90+ languages)
Tables ✅ (basic) ✅ (high accuracy)
Equations / LaTeX
Code blocks
Forms
Headers/footers removal
Reading order detection
Images extraction ✅ (embedded) ✅ (with context)
Images → text (OCR)
EPUB
Markdown output ✅ (via pymupdf4llm) ✅ (native, higher quality)
Install size ~25MB ~3-5GB (PyTorch + models)
Speed Instant ~1-14s/page (CPU), ~0.2s/page (GPU)

Decision: Use pymupdf unless you need OCR, equations, forms, or complex layout analysis.

If the user needs marker capabilities but the system lacks ~5GB free disk:

"This document needs OCR/advanced extraction (marker-pdf), which requires ~5GB for PyTorch and models. Your system has [X]GB free. Options: free up space, provide a URL so I can use web_extract, or I can try pymupdf which works for text-based PDFs but not scanned documents or equations."


pymupdf (lightweight)

pip install pymupdf pymupdf4llm

Via helper script:

python scripts/extract_pymupdf.py document.pdf              # Plain text
python scripts/extract_pymupdf.py document.pdf --markdown    # Markdown
python scripts/extract_pymupdf.py document.pdf --tables      # Tables
python scripts/extract_pymupdf.py document.pdf --images out/ # Extract images
python scripts/extract_pymupdf.py document.pdf --metadata    # Title, author, pages
python scripts/extract_pymupdf.py document.pdf --pages 0-4   # Specific pages

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 177 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A c752ea528c3a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ocr-and-documents is a skill published in the GitHub repository kevinnft/ai-agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,469 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to ocr-and-documents, differing in 24 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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