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Alterlab PDF Explore

alterlab-ieu/alterlab-pdf-explore

Explore a single PDF in depth — parse it once, then answer questions across its sections, figures, tables, and appendices — comparing methods across sections, extracting every instance of a pattern within the document, and reading values off its charts and tables. Use when interrogating one paper or report end-to-end, pulling every occurrence of something inside a document, or reading data from a figure/table in a PDF, serving the literature-review and paper-review pipeline. To build a comparison table across MANY papers prefer alterlab-pdf-extract; to simply convert a PDF to Markdown prefer alterlab-markitdown; for reference/citation management prefer alterlab-pyzotero. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

2k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
3
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
56
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-pdf-explore

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take alterlab-ieu/alterlab-pdf-explore from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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