Extract text from scanned PDF documents and convert to clean markdown. Use when user asks to transcribe, extract text, OCR, or convert a PDF (especially scanned documents, historical documents, or image-based PDFs) to markdown format. Outputs markdown file saved next to the original PDF.
Install
npx skills add lttr/dotfiles --skill pdf-to-markdownnpx skills add lttr/dotfiles --skill pdf-to-markdown -a claude-code -gnpx skills add lttr/dotfiles --skill pdf-to-markdown -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/lttr/dotfiles.git --path claude/skills/pdf-to-markdowngh skill install lttr/dotfiles pdf-to-markdowngit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lttr/dotfiles /tmp/lttr__dotfiles
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/lttr__dotfiles/claude/skills/pdf-to-markdown ~/.claude/skills/pdf-to-markdown # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/lttr__dotfiles/claude/skills/pdf-to-markdown ~/.agents/skills/pdf-to-markdown # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode