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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Sources
- The Only Claude Skills You Need in 2026 (2026-04-08)