OCR Tool Skill

ocr-tool is an installable Agent Skill for extracting text from PDFs with pdfocr.

Features

It provides one workflow:

• extracts text from full PDFs or selected page ranges
• caches OCR output one page at a time so overlapping requests reuse prior work
• installs pdfocr when needed
• writes extracted text to .ocr-tool-cache/output.txt or a chosen output file

This skill is intentionally limited to extraction. Use another skill after OCR if you want notes, flashcards, quizzes, or other transformed outputs.

Requirements

• pdfocr: Required for PDF-to-text extraction.
• DeepInfra API Key: Required by pdfocr.
  • Set it via DEEPINFRA_API_KEY (recommended).
  • Or provide it via config.json next to the pdfocr executable.

Installation

Using Codex

Codex recommends installing non-built-in skills using the $skill-installer. Prompt Codex with:

$skill-installer install the skill from repo planetis-m/study-assistant with path ocr-tool

Manual Install

Clone or copy ocr-tool into your agent's scanned skills path.

Usage Examples

Invoke the skill explicitly using $ocr-tool in your prompts:

Use $ocr-tool to extract text from lecture1.pdf.

Use $ocr-tool to OCR pages 8-20 of lecture1.pdf and return only the cleaned text.

Use $ocr-tool on this PDF, then use $study-assistant in study-notes mode on the extracted text.