ocr-and-documents SKILL.md skillA
ocr-and-documents from martin-hausleitner/martins-awesome-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- martin-hausleitner/martins-awesome-skills
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skills/productivity/ocr-and-documents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v2.3.0, committed May 13, 2026
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- 5,399 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Extract text from PDFs and scanned documents. Use web_extract for remote URLs, pymupdf for local text-based PDFs, marker-pdf for OCR/scanned docs. For DOCX use python-docx, for PPTX see the powerpoint skill.
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What the file says
# PDF & Document Extraction For DOCX: use `python-docx` (parses actual document structure, far better than OCR). For PPTX: see the `powerpoint` skill (uses `python-pptx` with full slide/notes support). This skill covers **PDFs and scanned documents**. ## Step 1: Remote URL Available? If the document has a URL, **always try `web_extract` first**: ``` web_extract(urls=["https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03300"]) web_extract(urls=["https://example.com/report.pdf"]) ``` This handles PDF-to-markdown conversion via Firecrawl with no local dependencies. Only use local extraction when: the file is local, web_extract fails, or you need batch processing. ## Step 2: Choose Local Extractor | Feature | pymupdf (~25MB) | marker-pdf (~3-5GB) | |---------|-----------------|---------------------| | **Text-based PDF** | ✅ | ✅ | | **Scanned PDF (OCR)** | ❌ | ✅ (90+ languages) | | **Tables** | ✅ (basic) | ✅ (high accuracy) | | **Equations / LaTeX** | ❌ | ✅ | | **Code blocks** | ❌ | ✅ | | **Forms** | ❌ | ✅ | | **Headers/footers removal** | ❌ | ✅ | | **Reading order detection** | ❌ | ✅ | | **Images extraction** | ✅ (embedded) | ✅ (with context) | | **Images → text (OCR)** | ❌ | ✅ | …
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How to install
mdr add martin-hausleitner/martins-awesome-skills/ocr-and-documents@sha256:36390c04b7c49b76The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.3.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
martin-hausleitner/martins-awesome-skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
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