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Chat With PDF Skill by @claude-office-skills

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$git clone https://github.com/claude-office-skills/skills

The skill is the chat-with-pdf folder inside that repository. Copy it into the folder your agent loads skills from; check your agent's documentation for where that is.

about Chat With PDF Skill by @claude-office-skills

Answer questions about PDF content, summarize, and extract information.

our take

Answers questions about a PDF's content, summarises it and extracts information. It lists the kinds of questions it handles and the output formats it can produce.

when to use it

You need quick answers from a long document
You want a summary of a report
You are pulling specific facts out of a PDF

before you install

Verify quoted figures against the page before relying on them
Do not upload confidential documents to tools you have not approved

what's inside

The original SKILL.md is organised into these sections:

Overview
How to Use
Basic Interaction
Question Types
Output Formats
Q&A Format
Summary Format
Document Summary
Key Points
Important Details
Extraction Format
Extracted Information

source and license

Written and maintained by @claude-office-skills. It is published under the MIT license, which allows reuse with attribution. SkillDirectory does not claim authorship: this page adds our own review and links back to the original, and the skill's text belongs to its author.

View the full SKILL.md on GitHub ↗

Read the opening of the original SKILL.md

# Chat with PDF

Have intelligent conversations about PDF documents - ask questions, get summaries, and extract specific information.

## Overview

This skill enables you to:
- Ask questions about PDF content
- Get summaries at various detail levels
- Extract specific data points
- Compare information across multiple PDFs
- Find relevant sections quickly

## How to Use

### Basic Interaction
1. Share or upload the PDF document
2. Ask your question or request
3. Get contextual answers with citations

### Question Types

**Factual Questions**
```
"What is the contract value mentioned in this document?"
"Who are the parties involved in this agreement?"
"What are the key dates mentioned?"
```

**Summarization**
```
"Summarize this document in 3 bullet points"
"Give me an executive summary"
"What are the main topics covered?"
```

**Extraction**
```
"Extract all names and titles mentioned"
"List all financial figures in the document"
"Find all action items or deliverables"
```
…

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