pdf-reader

pdf-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RightNow-AI/openfang. It costs 9 tokens per session (555 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for reading and interpreting PDF documents, including their text, tables, forms, and structured information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract text, rebuild tables, read filled forms, process scanned pages with OCR, and summarize or analyze document contents.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of copying information from PDFs and helps keep document structure and reading order intact. It also identifies content that could not be extracted reliably.

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/rightnow-ai/openfang/pdf-reader
Any agent
npx skills add RightNow-AI/openfang --skill pdf-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RightNow-AI/openfang

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for pdf-reader

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/pdf-reader.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/pdf-reader)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/pdf-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/pdf-reader.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 555 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 $0.00009 $0.00555
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00056

Measured 4d ago against content hash 72e73231efbc, 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 4d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

crates/openfang-skills/bundled/pdf-reader/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 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 · 52 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. 4d ago First seen · 52 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 72e73231efbc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository RightNow-AI/openfang (18,162 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 555 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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