Use Case
PDF Tools is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. View, extract, edit, and manipulate PDF files. Supports text extraction, text editing (overlay and replacement), merging, splitting, rotating pages, and getting PDF metadata. Use when working with PDF documents for reading content, adding/editing text, reorganizing pages, combining files, or extracting information. This guide walks you through installing PDF Tools, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install PDF Tools: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install pdf-tools
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to documents & notes to trigger PDF Tools
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine PDF Tools with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing PDF Tools
Help me get started with PDF Tools
What can PDF Tools do for my documents & notes workflow?
Show me an example of using PDF Tools
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install pdf-toolsOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install pdf-toolsβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/pdf-tools/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.