pdf

Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.

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npx tessl i github:chrisboden/cursor-skills --skill pdf

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Overall
score

95%

Review — 78%

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Evaluation — 98%

↑ 2.48x

Agent success when using this skill

Validation — 11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Evals

Evaluation results

100%

Quarterly Sales Data Extraction Pipeline

Text and table extraction library choice

Criteria

Without context

With context

pdfplumber for text

100%

pdfplumber for tables

100%

No pypdf text extraction

100%

Pandas DataFrame conversion

100%

DataFrame from table rows

100%

Excel export with pandas

100%

reportlab for PDF creation

100%

Platypus document builder

100%

Table in reportlab

100%

pdfplumber open context

100%

Document Assembly and Protection Pipeline

PDF merge, split, and manipulation

Criteria

Without context

With context

pypdf for merge

100%

pypdf for split

100%

pypdf for rotate

100%

merge_page for watermark

100%

Watermark from PdfReader

100%

pypdf encrypt

100%

Metadata via reader.metadata

100%

reportlab for creation

100%

PdfWriter binary write

100%

No PyMuPDF usage

100%

No pdfrw usage

100%

Failed

PDF rendering and image extraction

100%

82%

Fill Out a Non-Fillable PDF Registration Form

Non-fillable PDF form workflow

Criteria

Without context

With context

Convert PDF to images

100%

fields.json pages array

100%

fields.json form_fields array

100%

Non-intersecting boxes

100%

Checkbox uses X

100%

Validation image creation

100%

Bounding box check script

100%

Annotation-based filling

100%

Bounding box format

100%

Entry box targets input area

100%

Workflow log documents steps

100%

92%

Process and Fill a Fillable PDF Employee Onboarding Form

Fillable PDF form processing workflow

Criteria

Without context

With context

Check fillable fields

100%

Extract field info script

100%

Convert to images

field_values.json format

100%

field_id matches extraction

100%

Page number in field values

100%

Checkbox checked_value

100%

Fill with script

100%

Ordered workflow

100%

Scripts run from skill dir

100%

Description field present

100%

Evaluated: 15 days ago
Agent: Claude Code

Table of Contents

Quarterly Sales Data Extraction Pipeline Document Assembly and Protection Pipeline PDF rendering and image extraction Fill Out a Non-Fillable PDF Registration Form Process and Fill a Fillable PDF Employee Onboarding Form

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