Use this skill whenever the user wants tabular data from a PDF document AS A FILE — to extract, pull out, export, convert, or "put into a spreadsheet/Excel/CSV" (e.g. "pull out the rebates from the Contoso contract", "extract this pricing table", "get this into a spreadsheet"). This INCLUDES follow-up requests after you have already answered or summarized the data in chat — e.g.
Install
npx skills add microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill pdf-table-data-conversionnpx skills add microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill pdf-table-data-conversion -a claude-code -gnpx skills add microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill pdf-table-data-conversion -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills.git --path submissions/pdf-table-data-conversiongh skill install microsoft/cat-agent-skills pdf-table-data-conversiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills /tmp/microsoft__cat-agent-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/microsoft__cat-agent-skills/submissions/pdf-table-data-conversion ~/.claude/skills/pdf-table-data-conversion # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/microsoft__cat-agent-skills/submissions/pdf-table-data-conversion ~/.agents/skills/pdf-table-data-conversion # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode