pdf-extractor

A set of Python scripts for extracting text and metadata from PDF files, converting PDFs to text, Markdown, or HTML, and reading tables or form fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract selected pages or whole PDFs, convert documents into another format, or parse PDF forms and tables.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying content from PDFs and provides structured output for documents, tables, and forms.

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/maxvaega/skillkit/pdf-extractor
Any agent
npx skills add maxvaega/skillkit --skill pdf-extractor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxvaega/skillkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 349 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 $0.00012 $0.00349
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00035

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9b8c2ed4f334, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-extractor 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/convert.sh, scripts/extract.py, scripts/parse.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.

examples/skills/pdf-extractor/SKILL.md · 78 lines

What it actually says

PDF Extractor Skill

This skill provides tools for extracting text and metadata from PDF documents and converting them to different formats.

Available Scripts

extract.py

Extracts text and metadata from PDF files.

Input:

{
  "file_path": "/path/to/document.pdf",
  "pages": "all" | [1, 2, 3]
}

Output:

{
  "text": "Extracted text content...",
  "metadata": {
    "title": "Document Title",
    "author": "Author Name",
    "pages": 10
  }
}

convert.sh

Converts PDF files to different formats (text, markdown, etc.).

Input:

{
  "input_file": "/path/to/input.pdf",
  "output_format": "txt" | "md" | "html"
}

parse.py

Parses structured data from PDF forms and tables.

Input:

{
  "file_path": "/path/to/form.pdf",
  "extract_tables": true,
  "extract_forms": true
}

Usage Example

from skillkit import SkillManager

manager = SkillManager()
result = manager.execute_skill_script(
    skill_name="pdf-extractor",
    script_name="extract",
    arguments={"file_path": "document.pdf", "pages": "all"}
)

if result.success:
    print(result.stdout)
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. 2d ago First seen · 78 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 9b8c2ed4f334

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-extractor is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxvaega/skillkit (147 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 349 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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