extracting-pdf-text
CommunityUnlock PDF text for LLMs
AuthorZurybr
Version1.0.0
Installs0
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This Skill automates the extraction of text from PDF documents, transforming them into a format that Large Language Models (LLMs) can easily process for tasks like RAG, document analysis, and general text extraction.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Versatile Extraction: Supports text-based PDFs, PDFs with tables, and scanned documents using OCR.
- Multiple Tool Options: Integrates with efficient local libraries (PyMuPDF, pdfplumber) and powerful APIs (Mistral OCR) to handle various PDF complexities.
- Use Case: You need to ingest a large collection of scanned research papers into a knowledge base for an LLM. This Skill can process each PDF, extract the text and tables, and output it in a clean Markdown format suitable for RAG.
Quick Start
Use the extracting-pdf-text skill to extract text from the file 'report.pdf' and save it to 'report.md'.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
mistralaipdfplumberpymupdf4llmpytesseractpdf2imagePillow
Components
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Please help me install this Skill: Name: extracting-pdf-text Download link: https://github.com/Zurybr/lefarma-skills/archive/main.zip#extracting-pdf-text Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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