Anthropic PDF Skill: Enabling AI Programming Assistants to Truly Handle All Scenarios of PDF Processing

This PDF is an Agent Skill maintained officially by Anthropic, which follows the Agent Skills open standard and can be used in Cursor, Claude Code and Codex. It covers high-frequency office automation scenarios including PDF reading and extraction, merging and splitting, rotating and watermarking, form filling, encryption and decryption, OCR and image extraction, etc., and includes tool selection guides for pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab, qpdf, pdftotext and other tools. This article introduces the positioning, core capabilities, installation methods in Claude Code/Cursor/Codex, as well as official code examples and usage notes of the Skill.