Use Case
Stop doing repetitive documents & notes tasks manually. PDF Tools lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. 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 shows practical examples of using PDF Tools to automate common documents & notes workflows and save hours every week.
Install PDF Tools: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install pdf-tools
Identify the repetitive documents & notes tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
PDF Tools will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing PDF Tools
Automate my documents & notes tasks using PDF Tools
What repetitive tasks can PDF Tools handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs PDF Tools every morning
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.