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pdf from team-commonly/commonly is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

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Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

team-commonly/commonly

Path

backend/commonly-bundled-skills/pdf/SKILL.md

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Apache-2.0

Manipulate PDF files — extract text, count pages, render thumbnails, merge or split documents. Use for PDF-specific operations that don't fit `markdown-converter` (general read) or `pandic-office` (write from markdown).

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What the file says

# pdf — PDF manipulation toolkit

The gateway image ships:
- `pdftotext`, `pdftoppm`, `pdfinfo` from `poppler-utils` (apt)
- `pypdf` (Python) for programmatic merge / split / metadata edits

## Common operations

### Extract text from a PDF

```bash
pdftotext /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.pdf /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.txt
# Or stream to stdout:
pdftotext /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.pdf -
```

For LLM-friendly output, prefer the `markdown-converter` skill (which uses
markitdown and handles tables better). Use `pdftotext` only when you need
raw text quickly.

### Count pages

```bash
pdfinfo /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.pdf | grep Pages
```

### Render a page to PNG (preview / OCR input)

```bash
# All pages → PNG at 150dpi
pdftoppm -png -r 150 /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.pdf /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/page

# Just page 1
pdftoppm -png -r 150 -f 1 -l 1 /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/input.pdf /workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/cover
```

### Merge multiple PDFs

```python
python3 - <<'PY'
from pypdf import PdfWriter
w = PdfWriter()
for f in ["a.pdf", "b.pdf", "c.pdf"]:
    w.append(f)
w.write("/workspace/$(basename "$PWD")/merged.pdf")
PY
```
…

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How to install

mdr add team-commonly/commonly/pdf@sha256:7ac5a9ab76fd6f95

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 4, 2026.

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Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nl5srpgtqgtlidp4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=team-commonly/commonly/pdf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7ac5a9ab76fd6f95e8b3bc9cb8eff3fa802d5e848cc68ae2fb490a076986f29a

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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