pdf-reader

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By espennilsen/pi (GitHub) · media · 122 stars · scanned at commit bc93c75

Read and extract content from PDF files — text, tables, metadata, and images. Use when asked to read a PDF, extract text from a PDF, summarize a PDF, analyze a PDF document, get tables from a PDF, or check PDF metadata. Also triggers on "open this PDF", "what does this PDF say", "parse PDF", "PDF to text", or when a .pdf file path or URL is provided.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 2 places.

skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 39curl -sL "URL" -o /tmp/document.pdf
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 200Is it a URL? → curl -sL "URL" -o /tmp/doc.pdf

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 17 places.

skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 39curl -sL "URL" -o /tmp/document.pdf
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 45file /tmp/document.pdf # should say "PDF document"
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 54pdftotext file.pdf -

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skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 60pdftotext -f 1 -l 10 file.pdf - # pages 1-10
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 66pdftotext -layout file.pdf -
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 75python3 scripts/extract.py tables file.pdf
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 96pdfinfo file.pdf
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 113pdftotext file.pdf - | grep -n -i "keyword"
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 125python3 scripts/extract.py scan file.pdf # reports scanned pages
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 134python3 scripts/extract.py text file.pdf
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 143python3 scripts/extract.py ocr file.pdf
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 156tesseract --list-langs
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 161brew install tesseract-lang # all languages
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 171python3 scripts/extract.py text file.pdf
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 180pdftotext -upw "password" file.pdf - # user password
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 187pdftotext -enc UTF-8 file.pdf -
skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 193pdfimages -png file.pdf /tmp/images/img # extracts as PNG

Downloads and installs other software

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 5 places.

skills/pdf-reader/SKILL.md, line 161brew install tesseract-lang # all languages
skills/pdf-reader/scripts/extract.py, line 38print("Error: pdfplumber not installed. Run: pip install pdfplumber", file=sys.stderr)
skills/pdf-reader/scripts/extract.py, line 182print(" Install OCR: pip install pytesseract pdf2image")

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skills/pdf-reader/scripts/extract.py, line 214print("Install: pip install pytesseract pdf2image", file=sys.stderr)
skills/pdf-reader/scripts/extract.py, line 281print(" Install OCR support: pip install pytesseract pdf2image", file=sys.stderr)

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'pdf-reader' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'pdf-reader' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named pdf-reader already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/espennilsen/pi' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'bc93c758ce40b8824a0884c5a5f97f33fb27dea0' -- 'skills/pdf-reader' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/pdf-reader' ~/.agents/skills/'pdf-reader' && 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/'pdf-reader' ~/.claude/skills/'pdf-reader' (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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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-10	`bc93c75`	82