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ocring-pdfs

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By oaustegard/claude-skills (GitHub) · media · 158 stars · scanned at commit 487272b

Adds a searchable text layer to a scanned PDF with ocrmypdf. Installs the toolchain at runtime in ~18s. Use when a PDF's pages are images and the deliverable is a file to keep, grep, or hand to another tool: 'make this PDF searchable', 'OCR this scan', 'I can't select the text in this PDF', 'search across these scanned pages', 'the pdf skill returned nothing'. Handles non-English scans via tesseract language packs. NOT for charts, diagrams, handwriting, or slide layouts. Route those to transcri…

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/'ocring-pdfs' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ocring-pdfs' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ocring-pdfs already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '487272b6d1d9a2c5248d9adfa2d7765f8ca2b6af' -- 'ocring-pdfs' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'ocring-pdfs' ~/.agents/skills/'ocring-pdfs' && 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/'ocring-pdfs' ~/.claude/skills/'ocring-pdfs' (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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