Extract PDF Text With Poppler

cxcscmu/extract_pdf_text_with_poppler

Extracts text from PDF files using the `pdftotext` command-line utility with the `-layout` flag to preserve multi-column formatting, which is essential for accurately parsing scientific papers.

256 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

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/cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench --skill extract_pdf_text_with_poppler

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take cxcscmu/extract_pdf_text_with_poppler from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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