PDF Explore

Use this skill when the user has attached a PDF, paper, report, or other document and the answer needs content from more than one place in it: summarize the methods or any other section, compare sections, find where a topic is discussed, read a value or label off a figure or chart, or find/list/extract every instance of something across the whole document (datasets, benchmarks, citations, figures, table rows, accession numbers — including appendices). Skip it only for a single lookup of 1–4 pages quoted in your very next response — `read_file(pages=[...])` attaches pages as images that are dropped from context after one turn, so multi-section answers end up re-reading the same ranges repeatedly. Parses the PDF once in the Python kernel: `pdf_pages` (pages as persistent text), `pdf_outline` (TOC), `pdf_scan` (rank pages by relevance), `pdf_map`/`pdf_extract` (per-page summary / structured fields via parallel haiku calls). For PDF creation/manipulation, use reportlab/pypdf directly.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pdf-explore
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/pdf-explore/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/pdf-explore/SKILL.md

@misc{pdf-explore-2026,
  author    = {xuzhougeng},
  title     = {PDF Explore [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/pdf-explore/}
}