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ALWAYS use this skill instead of the Read tool for PDF files. The Read tool cannot extract PDF tables properly. Use this skill when: (1) Reading ANY PDF file, (2) Extracting tables from PDFs, (3) Converting PDF tables to pandas DataFrames, (4) Processing multi-page PDFs
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# PDF Processing Guide
## IMPORTANT: Do NOT Use the Read Tool for PDFs
**The Read tool cannot properly extract tabular data from PDFs.** It will only show you a limited preview of the first page's text content, missing most of the data.
For PDF files, especially multi-page PDFs with tables:
- **DO**: Use `pdfplumber` as shown in this skill
- **DO NOT**: Use the Read tool to view PDF contents
If you need to extract data from a PDF, write Python code using pdfplumber. This is the only reliable way to get complete table data from all pages.
## Overview
