pdf-extraction

Extract text, tables, and metadata from PDF documents with character-level precision. This skill enables precise extraction of text, tables, and metadata from PDF documents using pdfplumber - the go-to library for PDF data extraction. Unlike basic PDF readers, pdfplumber provides detailed character-level positioning, accurate table detection, and visual debugging. Example prompts: - Supports text extraction with layout preservation, word-level positioning, and character-level access including font and size metadata - Includes advanced table detection with customizable strategies (lines, text, explicit) and tolerance tuning for complex layouts - Provides visual debugging via image rendering with overlays for characters, words, lines, and detected table boundaries - Handles cropping, region filtering, and font-based text selection for targeted data extraction from specific PDF areas - Provide the PDF file you want to extract from - Specify what you need: text, tables, images, or metadata - I'll generate pdfplumber code and execute it - "Extract all tables from this financial report" - "Get text from pages 5-10 of this document" - "Find and extract the invoice total from this PDF" - "Convert this PDF table to CSV/Excel" - Debug Visually : Use to_image() to understand PDF structure - Tune Table Settings : Adjust tolerances for your specific PDF - Handle Scanned PDFs : Use OCR...