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extract_pdf_text_with_poppler

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench (GitHub) · design · 93 stars · scanned at commit 726e1f7

Extracts text from PDF files using the `pdftotext` command-line utility with the `-layout` flag to preserve multi-column formatting, which is essential for accurately parsing scientific papers.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'extract-pdf-text-with-poppler' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'extract-pdf-text-with-poppler' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named extract-pdf-text-with-poppler already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '726e1f79b96b0cb3d729d0e55a1c847e0b5353ae' -- 'skills/b3-teacher-feedback-gemini-3-flash-preview/organize-messy-files/run3_extract_pdf_text_with_poppler' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/b3-teacher-feedback-gemini-3-flash-preview/organize-messy-files/run3_extract_pdf_text_with_poppler' ~/.agents/skills/'extract-pdf-text-with-poppler' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'extract-pdf-text-with-poppler' ~/.claude/skills/'extract-pdf-text-with-poppler' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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