document-skills
Read, parse, create, and manipulate PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents with formula preservation and format conversion.
When to Use
- Extract text, tables, or data from existing documents (invoices, reports, forms)
- Generate professional documents programmatically (reports, presentations, spreadsheets)
- Convert between formats while preserving structure (DOCX to PDF, Excel to JSON)
- Automate document workflows at scale (merge PDFs, batch processing)
Key Capabilities
| Skill | Read | Create | Special Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text, tables, forms | Merge, split, watermark | OCR scanned PDFs, form filling | |
| docx | Text, tracked changes | Professional docs | Redlining, comments, formatting |
| pptx | Slides, speaker notes | Presentations | HTML conversion, templates |
| xlsx | Data, formulas | Spreadsheets | Formula recalc, financial models |
Common Use Cases
Accountant extracting invoice data
“Use document-skills/pdf to extract all line items, amounts, and vendor info from these 50 invoices and save to Excel”
Lawyer reviewing contracts
“Use document-skills/docx to analyze contract.docx, track changes for proposed amendments to payment terms in Section 5, and generate redlined version”
Analyst building financial model
“Use document-skills/xlsx to create DCF model with assumptions sheet, 5-year projections, formulas for NPV/IRR, and blue text for inputs”
Marketing team generating reports
“Use document-skills/pptx to create quarterly deck using template.pptx - duplicate slide 3 for each region, replace text with Q4 metrics, output presentation.pptx”
Compliance team processing forms
“Use document-skills/pdf to fill out tax forms from data.json, merge into single PDF, and validate all required fields completed”
Quick Reference
PDF Operations
Extract tables: "Use document-skills/pdf to extract tables from report.pdf and save as CSV"
Merge files: "Use document-skills/pdf to merge contract.pdf, terms.pdf, exhibit.pdf into final.pdf"
Fill forms: "Use document-skills/pdf to fill W-9 form with company data and flatten fields"Word Documents
Read content: "Use document-skills/docx to convert agreement.docx to markdown preserving structure"
Track changes: "Use document-skills/docx to add tracked change replacing '30 days' with '60 days' in Section 3.2"
Create doc: "Use document-skills/docx to generate report with headings, tables, and formatted text"PowerPoint
Use template: "Use document-skills/pptx to duplicate slides 0,5,5,12 from template.pptx, replace text with new content"
Extract text: "Use document-skills/pptx to extract all slide text and speaker notes to JSON"
Create deck: "Use document-skills/pptx to build 10-slide presentation with charts and bullet points"Excel
Read data: "Use document-skills/xlsx to load sales.xlsx and analyze revenue by region"
Create model: "Use document-skills/xlsx to build budget with formulas, blue inputs, formatted numbers"
Recalc formulas: "Use document-skills/xlsx to recalculate all formulas in model.xlsx and check for errors"Pro Tips
- Specify format details: “Extract tables preserving merged cells” vs just “extract tables”
- Chain operations: Read → Process → Create in one request for efficiency
- Use templates: Faster than creating from scratch for consistent branding
- Validate formulas: Always recalculate Excel files after modification (
recalc.py) - Batch processing: Process multiple files in one request for large jobs
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Related Skills
- ai-multimodal - Analyze document images with AI
- gemini-vision - OCR and visual document analysis
- research - Extract insights from documents
- repomix - Package documents for AI analysis
Key Takeaway
document-skills handles all major document formats with professional precision. Extract invoice data, track contract changes, generate financial models, build presentations - all automated and production-ready.