PDF Agent

Summary - Use pdfagent to perform PDF operations (merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, etc.) with detailed usage metering in the output. - Best for local, self-hosted processing where inputs/outputs must stay on disk. - This skill ships source code in pdfagent/ and runs via uv run from scripts/pdfagent_cli.py (no PyPI publish required).

Requirements - uv installed and on PATH. - System tools as needed by specific commands: qpdf, ghostscript, poppler (pdftoppm), libreoffice, chromium (for HTML -> PDF), and ocrmypdf.

Core Usage - Merge PDFs with usage metrics: uv run {baseDir}/scripts/pdfagent_cli.py merge file1.pdf file2.pdf --out merged.pdf --json - Split a PDF by ranges: uv run {baseDir}/scripts/pdfagent_cli.py split input.pdf --range "1-3,5" --out-dir out_dir --json - Compress a PDF with a preset: uv run {baseDir}/scripts/pdfagent_cli.py compress input.pdf --preset ebook --out compressed.pdf --json - Convert images to PDF: uv run {baseDir}/scripts/pdfagent_cli.py jpg-to-pdf image1.jpg image2.png --out output.pdf --json - OCR a scanned PDF: uv run {baseDir}/scripts/pdfagent_cli.py ocr scan.pdf --lang eng --out scan_ocr.pdf --json - Agent mode for multi-step instructions: uv run {baseDir}/scripts/pdfagent_cli.py agent "merge then rotate 90 degrees every other page" -i file1.pdf -i file2.pdf --out out.pdf --json - Dependency/binary check: uv run {baseDir}/scripts/pdfagent_cli.py doctor --json

Notes - Use --json for machine-readable outputs (includes usage and outputs). - For encrypted PDFs, pass --password or per-file --passwords. - If a conversion tool is missing, pdfagent may use a fallback path and will note it in output or logs. - Optional Python deps are still command-specific: uv run --with pdf2docx --with camelot-py[cv] --with pdfplumber --with pyhanko {baseDir}/scripts/pdfagent_cli.py <command> ...