Skill / Anthropic

PDF Codex Skill

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging...

Docs reviewedChecked 2026-09-20Runtime not tested

What it adds

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.

media and content

Get set up

Copy the skill folder from the source into your Codex skills directory.
Start a new thread so Codex picks up the skill.

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Before you install

Compatibility & limitations

Documented for ChatGPT desktop app, Codex CLI, Codex IDE extension

Cursor: Not confirmed for Cursor.

This listing is based on source documentation. We have not installed or runtime-tested this asset.

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Sources & provenance

Reviewed 2026-09-20. Source revision: main (mutable; commit not pinned).