PDF Processing Skill

Anthropic-official Claude skill for PDF manipulation: read, extract tables, fill forms, merge, split. Source claim: 15 separate apps are reportedly splitting $10M monthly recurring revenue between them on PDF processing alone — there is clear demand for this primitive.

What it does

  • Read PDFs (text + tables)
  • Extract tabular data
  • Fill PDF forms
  • Merge and split PDFs

The source cites an Indie Hacker user who reduced a 90-minute contract review to under a minute using this skill.

Type and platform

  • Type: skill (Anthropic-official)
  • Platforms: Claude Code
  • Status: tracked

Wiki context

Aligns with the wiki’s existing pdf-extraction.md rule for ingesting PDF sources — same problem, different surface (the wiki extracts to markdown for ingestion; this skill operates on PDFs as live documents).

Hands-on notes

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