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Chat with PDF

Answer questions about PDF content, summarize, and extract information

190stars49forksUpdated 6/5/2026

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About Chat with PDF

Chat with PDF is a document interaction skill designed to help users understand, analyze, and extract information from PDF files through natural language conversations. Instead of manually searching through lengthy documents, users can upload or share a PDF and ask questions directly about its contents. The skill supports answering factual questions, locating specific information, generating summaries, and extracting relevant details from documents. It is intended to make PDF content more accessible and easier to navigate while providing contextual answers that reference the source material.

The skill provides several core capabilities, including PDF question answering, content extraction, and document summarization. Users can request executive summaries, concise bullet-point overviews, or topic-focused summaries. It can extract structured information such as names, titles, dates, financial figures, action items, and other document-specific data. The skill also supports analytical queries, helping users identify risks, obligations, ambiguous terms, or other notable content within a document. In addition, it can compare information across multiple PDFs and help users quickly locate relevant sections.

Common use cases include reviewing contracts, analyzing research papers, extracting business information, and understanding reports or manuals. Legal professionals, researchers, analysts, business teams, and general users can benefit from the skill when working with large or complex PDF documents. It is particularly useful for users who need fast access to specific information, structured data extraction, or concise summaries without manually reading an entire document.

FAQ

How do I use this skill with a PDF document?

Upload or share a PDF document and ask a question, request a summary, or specify information you want extracted from the document.

What types of questions can I ask?

You can ask factual questions, request summaries, extract specific data, analyze document content, or compare information across multiple PDF documents.

Can the skill provide document summaries?

Yes. It can generate summaries at different levels of detail, including executive summaries, bullet-point summaries, and topic-focused summaries.

What PDF-related capabilities does the skill support?

The skill supports PDF question answering, content extraction, summarization, metadata retrieval, and locating relevant information within documents.

Which languages are supported?

According to the skill metadata, the skill supports English (en) and Chinese (zh).

Install Chat with PDF

Download and extract the skill files to your .claude/skills/ directory.

Quick Setup:

  1. Copy the skill folder to .claude/skills/
  2. Claude will automatically detect and use the skill