PDF Pro

PDF Pro is a production-ready PDF workflow package for AI assistants and local automation.

It is designed first as a ChatGPT Skill and structured to be adaptable for Claude Skills, Claude Code, Gemini Gems, VSCode, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity, and other coding-agent or CLI workflows.

PDF Pro helps assistants and developers create, edit, inspect, extract, render, validate, redact, and visually improve PDF files through a verification-first process. It combines practical PDF operations with design-system guidance so final documents are usable, visually checked, accurate, and ready to share.

Repository description

A professional AI workflow package for creating, editing, reviewing, extracting, validating, redacting, and visually improving production-ready PDF files across ChatGPT Skills, Claude Skills, and CLI-based coding agents.

What this package supports

• Creating new PDFs from structured content.
• Creating polished visual PDFs from JSON specifications.
• Editing existing PDFs through safe operations such as merge, split, rotate, crop, watermark, redaction, and extraction.
• Reviewing PDFs by inspecting metadata, page count, encryption status, page sizes, rotation, and text layer availability.
• Rendering PDF pages to PNG for visual verification.
• Extracting text from selectable-text PDFs.
• Validating final PDF outputs before delivery.
• Checking required and forbidden phrases during validation.
• Applying professional visual design rules for client-facing PDFs.
• Supporting local CLI workflows for editors and coding agents.
• Providing platform guidance for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Antigravity, and local assistants.

Platform compatibility

Compatibility depends on whether the target platform supports instruction files, uploaded references, filesystem access, and code execution.

Designed for

• Client-facing reports
• Branded PDF documents
• Certificates
• One-page documents
• Educational handouts
• Worksheets
• Dashboards
• Internal reports
• Policy documents
• PDF inspection workflows
• PDF extraction workflows
• Safe PDF editing workflows
• Visual review before final delivery
• Editor-based automation in VSCode, Claude Code, Copilot, and Antigravity

Core workflow

PDF Pro follows a production-style workflow:

1. Identify the PDF task.
2. Inspect or render the input where needed.
3. Choose the safest authoring or editing method.
4. Perform the smallest safe operation.
5. Inspect or render the output.
6. Validate the final file.
7. Deliver the PDF with a clear summary of what was done, what was verified, and any limitation.

The goal is to avoid treating PDF work as a one-step file operation. Every final PDF should be checked before delivery.

Author and licence

• Author: Tariq Said
• Licence: MIT
• UI/UX Design Inspiration: UI/UX Pro Max by NextLevelBuilder, MIT Licence

See LICENSE and NOTICE.md for the complete licence and attribution details.

Folder structure

pdf-pro/
├── SKILL.md
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
├── NOTICE.md
├── AGENTS.md
├── CLAUDE.md
├── GEMINI.md
├── CLI.md
├── pyproject.toml
├── agents/
│   └── openai.yaml
├── assets/
│   ├── design-tokens-starter.json
│   └── pdf.png
├── examples/
│   └── visual-spec.json
├── platforms/
│   ├── chatgpt.md
│   ├── claude.md
│   ├── gemini.md
│   └── cli-agents.md
├── references/
│   ├── pdf-workflows.md
│   ├── quality-checklist.md
│   ├── validation-protocol.md
│   ├── visual-design-system.md
│   ├── cli-integration.md
│   ├── platform-compatibility.md
│   └── compatibility-checklist.md
├── scripts/
│   ├── create_visual_pdf.py
│   ├── pdf_ops.py
│   ├── validate_pdf.py
│   └── validate_package.py
├── src/
│   └── pdf_pro/
│       ├── __init__.py
│       ├── cli.py
│       ├── create_visual_pdf.py
│       ├── pdf_ops.py
│       └── validate_pdf.py
└── tests/
    └── test_cli_smoke.py

Main entry points

ChatGPT Skills

SKILL.md is the primary ChatGPT Skill instruction file.

It defines:

• When the skill should be used.
• How PDF tasks should be classified.
• Which workflows should be followed.
• When to inspect, render, extract, edit, validate, redact, or visually review a PDF.
• How final outputs should be delivered.

Claude Skills and Claude Code

Use CLAUDE.md and platforms/claude.md.

Gemini Gems

Use GEMINI.md and platforms/gemini.md.

CLI and coding agents

Use CLI.md, AGENTS.md, and references/cli-integration.md.

Install for CLI use

From the repository root:

python -m pip install -e .

Install optional PDF dependencies:

python -m pip install pypdf pymupdf reportlab

Or install with the package extras:

python -m pip install -e ".[pdf]"

CLI examples

Inspect a PDF:

pdf-pro inspect input.pdf

Extract text:

pdf-pro extract-text input.pdf --out extracted.txt

Render pages for visual review:

pdf-pro render input.pdf --out-dir renders/input --dpi 160

Merge PDFs:

pdf-pro merge output.pdf first.pdf second.pdf

Split pages:

pdf-pro split input.pdf --pages 1-3,7 --out selected-pages.pdf

Rotate pages:

pdf-pro rotate input.pdf --pages 1,3-5 --angle 90 --out rotated.pdf

Crop pages:

pdf-pro crop input.pdf --box 36,36,559,806 --out cropped.pdf

Add a watermark:

pdf-pro watermark input.pdf --text "DRAFT" --out watermarked.pdf

Redact matched text:

pdf-pro redact input.pdf --text "Confidential" --out redacted.pdf

Validate a finished PDF:

pdf-pro validate output.pdf --expected-pages 5 --render --out-dir validation/output

Create a visual PDF from JSON:

pdf-pro visual examples/visual-spec.json --out output.pdf

Script examples

The same operations are available without installing the package:

python scripts/pdf_ops.py inspect input.pdf
python scripts/pdf_ops.py render input.pdf --out-dir renders/input --dpi 160
python scripts/pdf_ops.py merge output.pdf first.pdf second.pdf
python scripts/validate_pdf.py output.pdf --render --out-dir validation/output
python scripts/create_visual_pdf.py examples/visual-spec.json --out output.pdf

Validation standard

Before a final PDF is delivered, verify at minimum:

1. The output file exists and opens.
2. The page count is correct.
3. Page sizes and rotations are intentional.
4. Text extraction is checked when text layer accuracy matters.
5. Visual renders are checked for clipping, overlap, missing glyphs, weak contrast, and layout errors.
6. Any limitation is stated clearly, especially scanned pages, OCR uncertainty, missing fonts, password protection, or poor source-file quality.

See references/validation-protocol.md for the full protocol.

Quality checklist

Before delivering a visual PDF, check:

• No clipped text.
• No overlapping elements.
• No missing glyphs.
• No broken images.
• No accidental page rotation.
• Margins are consistent.
• Headings are clear.
• Tables are readable.
• Charts are labelled.
• Colours have enough contrast.
• The PDF opens successfully.
• Rendered pages match the intended layout.

See references/quality-checklist.md for the complete checklist.

Redaction note

PDF Pro includes redaction workflow guidance and a text redaction command using a redaction-capable PDF engine where available. Do not treat a visual black box as safe redaction. True redaction must remove underlying text or pixels and must be verified through text extraction and rendering.

See references/validation-protocol.md for redaction validation rules.

Package validation

Validate the repository structure:

python scripts/validate_package.py .

Run smoke tests:

python -m pytest

Compile Python files:

python -m compileall scripts src

Attribution note

This package includes original PDF workflow instructions authored for PDF Pro.

Its visual design guidance is inspired by UI/UX Pro Max by NextLevelBuilder, which is identified as MIT-licensed. This package does not claim ownership of UI/UX Pro Max or its upstream project.

See NOTICE.md for full attribution details.

Licence

This project is released under the MIT Licence.

See LICENSE for details.

Maintainer

Created and maintained by Tariq Said.

PDF Pro is part of DXBMark’s professional workflow tooling for document automation, PDF production, and AI-assisted content operations.