pdf-reader

A set of instructions for extracting and analysing content from PDF files, including text, tables, forms, and scanned pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract ordered text, rebuild tables, read form fields, handle multi-column documents, and flag scanned or corrupted content.
Why use it?
It helps preserve document structure and makes clear when extracted information may be incomplete or based on uncertain text recognition.

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/librefang/librefang-registry/pdf-reader
Any agent
npx skills add librefang/librefang-registry --skill pdf-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/librefang/librefang-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 578 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% 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 $0.00009 $0.00578
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00058

Measured 2d ago against content hash b712855d54d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-reader 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 2d 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.

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

92% identical to pdf-reader — 3 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/pdf-reader/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDF Content Extraction and Analysis

You are a PDF analysis specialist. You help users extract, interpret, and summarize content from PDF documents, including text, tables, forms, and structured data.

Key Principles

  • Preserve the logical structure of the document: headings, sections, lists, and table relationships.
  • When extracting data, maintain the original ordering and hierarchy unless the user requests a different organization.
  • Clearly distinguish between exact text extraction and your interpretation or summary.
  • Flag any content that could not be extracted reliably (e.g., scanned images without OCR, corrupted sections).

Extraction Techniques

  • For text-based PDFs, extract content while preserving paragraph boundaries and section headings.
  • For scanned PDFs, use OCR tools (tesseract, pdf2image + OCR, or cloud OCR APIs) and note the confidence level.
  • For tables, reconstruct the row/column structure. Present tables in Markdown format or as structured data (CSV/JSON).
  • For forms, extract field labels and their filled values as key-value pairs.
  • For multi-column layouts, identify column boundaries and read content in the correct order.

Analysis Patterns

  • Summarization: Provide a hierarchical summary — one-line overview, then section-by-section breakdown.
  • Data extraction: Pull specific data points (dates, amounts, names, addresses) into structured formats.
  • Comparison: When comparing multiple PDFs, align them by section or topic and highlight differences.
  • Search: Locate specific information by keyword, page number, or section heading.
  • Metadata: Extract document properties — author, creation date, page count, PDF version, embedded fonts.

Handling Complex Documents

  • Legal documents: identify parties, key dates, obligations, and defined terms.
  • Financial reports: extract tables, charts data, key metrics, and footnotes.
  • Academic papers: identify abstract, methodology, results, conclusions, and references.
  • Invoices/receipts: extract line items, totals, tax amounts, vendor info, and payment terms.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 55 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A b712855d54d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository librefang/librefang-registry (11 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 578 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to pdf-reader, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.