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Extract, create, merge, split, and fill PDF documents using Python libraries.

Updated Mar 30, 2026
Search Tags:#pdf#form filling#document generation#text extraction#pypdf#table extraction#reportlab
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Skill: pdf
Source: https://github.com/tmtgroupbot/lptracker-deploy/tree/main/skills/pdf
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/tmtgroupbot/lptracker-deploy --skill pdf-tmtgroupbot

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill requires pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab, pypdfium2, pdf2image, Pillow, and includes scripts (resource) and references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? Working with PDF documents programmatically is error-prone: text extraction loses layout, tables come out garbled, forms are hard to fill, and generated PDFs often have broken fonts, missing metadata, or poor typography. This Skill provides a complete, battle-tested workflow for every common PDF operation. ## Core Features & Use Cases - PDF Generation: Create professional PDFs with reportlab, including cover pages, tables of contents, styled tables, charts, and correct Chinese/English font handling. - Extraction & Manipulation: Extract text and tables with pdfplumber, merge/split/rotate/crop pages with pypdf, and render pages to images with pypdfium2. - Form Filling: Fill both fillable PDF forms (via field extraction scripts) and non-fillable forms (via visual bounding-box analysis and text annotations). - Use Case: Generate a 10-page Chinese financial report PDF with a cover page, TOC, styled tables, and charts, then automatically stamp it with proper document metadata. ## Quick Start Use the pdf skill to create a 3-page PDF report summarizing the attached data, with a cover page and a formatted results table.

Frequently Asked Questions about pdf

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I extract text and tables from a PDF in Python?▼

Use pdfplumber to extract text with layout preservation and detect tables via cell boundaries, or use pypdf's extract_text() for simple text. pdfplumber returns tables as row lists that convert directly to CSV or pandas DataFrames.

How do I fill out a PDF form programmatically?▼

First run check_fillable_fields.py to detect fillable fields. If present, extract field info to JSON and fill values with fill_fillable_fields.py. For non-fillable forms, convert pages to images, determine bounding boxes visually, and add text annotations.

How do I merge or split PDF files with Python?▼

Use pypdf's PdfWriter and PdfReader: add pages from multiple readers to one writer to merge, or write each page to a separate writer to split. The qpdf command-line tool also handles complex page-range extraction.

Why do Chinese characters show as blank boxes in reportlab PDFs?▼

English fonts like Times New Roman cannot render CJK characters. Register Chinese fonts such as SimHei or Microsoft YaHei with TTFont, and wrap mixed-language segments in inline font tags inside Paragraph objects.

Can I extract text from a scanned PDF?▼

Standard parsers cannot read scanned image PDFs. Convert pages to images with pdf2image or pypdfium2, then run OCR with pytesseract to obtain machine-readable text.

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