PDF Text Extractor
Extract text from PDF files with support for multiple languages.
Installation
- Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.
Skills load from
~/.claude/skills/when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then runclaudein any terminal to verify.One-time setupnpm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-codeAlready have it? Skip ahead.
- Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.
This copies the whole skill folder into
~/.claude/skills/pdf-axoviq-ai/— the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)
Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates — they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.
Quick install (SKILL.md only)Sign up to copy - Restart Claude Code.
Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from
~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup. - Just ask Claude.
Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description — no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the “What this skill does” section above.
Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.
When Claude uses it
Extract text from PDF documents
What this skill does
PDF Skill
Extracts text from PDF files using pypdf as the primary parser, with
pdfminer.six as a fallback for CJK fonts that pypdf cannot decode
(detected when pypdf yields fewer than 50 characters per page on average).
When this skill is used
- Source path ends with
.pdf - User intent contains:
pdf,research paper,document
Scripts
scripts/main.py—PdfSkillclass
References
references/cjk-notes.md— notes on CJK font handling
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