pdf-poppler-utils Skill

A collection of PDF manipulation tools from the poppler-utils package.

Installation

Prerequisites

• - Homebrew installed on your system

Install Poppler

⚠️ Important Warning About curl

The poppler Homebrew package has curl as a dependency. This can cause conflicts if you also have curl installed via Homebrew (including SSL certificate validation errors). Use the system curl directly or consider alternative approaches.

Before using poppler, it is strongly recommended to unlink the Homebrew installed curl:

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⚠️ Please ask for human permission before executing brew unlink curl -v. If the human is unsure, recommend executing it (to resolve the potential conflict).

When to Use Which Tool

Quick Reference

View PDF Information

Extract Text

Extract Images

Split PDF

Merge PDFs

Convert to HTML

Convert to Images

pdftoppm -png -r 300 document.pdf output_prefix

Tool Details

See individual documentation files in the tools/ folder for detailed usage:

• - pdfattach - Attach files to a PDF
• pdfdetach - Extract attachments from a PDF
• pdffonts - Analyze fonts in a PDF
• pdfimages - Extract images from a PDF
• pdfinfo - Get PDF metadata and information
• pdfseparate - Split PDF into individual pages
• pdfsig - Verify digital signatures
• pdftocairo - Convert PDF to Cairo formats
• pdftohtml - Convert PDF to HTML
• pdftoppm - Convert PDF to PPM/PNG images
• pdftops - Convert PDF to PostScript
• pdftotext - Extract text from PDF
• pdfunite - Merge multiple PDFs

Common Options

Many tools share common options:

Notes

• - All tools follow the convention: INLINECODE7
• Use - as filename to read from stdin / write to stdout
• Exit codes: 0=success, 1=error opening PDF, 2=error opening output, 3=permission error, 99=other error