Pdf

It handles the full spectrum: extracting text and tables with pdfplumber, merging and splitting with pypdf, creating new PDFs from scratch with reportlab, and even OCR on scanned documents. The skill knows to use the right tool for each job, which matters because pypdf is great for manipulation but pdfplumber is better for structured data extraction. One gotcha worth knowing: it specifically warns against using Unicode subscript characters in reportlab because they render as black boxes. Whether you're automating document workflows or just need to pull tables into a DataFrame, it covers the common cases without making you remember which library does what.