Anthropic pdf skill (official)
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The official Anthropic SKILL.md that powers Claude's PDF work — form filling, text/table extraction, merge, and generation. The reference Agent Skill for PDFs (in anthropics/skills, ~164k stars).Our read
Why it ranks #1
The official Anthropic reference PDF skill inside the roughly 163.9k-star anthropics/skills repository; the parent-star count signals visibility, not isolated skill usage.Here is the catch
requires a compatible agent runtime and local dependencies
repository stars cannot be attributed to this skill alone
complex visual edits still need iterative rendering and inspection
Does this well
official, inspectable guidance for reliable agent PDF work
covers creation, editing and QA rather than one narrow operation
uses established PDF libraries and render verification
Pricing
Checked by hand on 2026-07-23. Prices in this category change often — if this looks wrong, it probably is.
Key features
PDF extraction and visual inspectionForm filling and annotationMerge, split and transformation workflowsProgrammatic PDF generation
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Quick facts
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