ocr-document-processor — Claude Code skill: OCR for scans and PDFs
Pulls text and structure out of scans, photos and scanned PDFs. Useful when the only copy of a document is an image.
npx skills add dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills --skill ocr-document-processor -a claude-codeWhat ocr-document-processor does
The skill walks the agent through OCR-heavy inputs. First it picks the mode: plain recognition, structured extraction, or parsing built for one document type. Noisy scans with skew, blur or shadows get preprocessed before anything is read.
Two layers of tooling ship with it. Core work goes through scripts/ocr_processor.py; narrow cases have their own helpers, scripts/business_card_scanner.py and scripts/receipt_scanner.py. Output can be text, markdown, JSON or HTML, and tables from scanned pages are covered too, along with searchable PDF export.
Low-quality sources get flagged. Rotated pages, handwriting and mixed languages all come back with confidence caveats, and the skill tells the agent not to present weak fields as exact. Set the language explicitly when accuracy matters. Digital PDFs that were never scanned are routed to document-converter-suite by default, since OCR adds nothing there.
What it helps with
- recover text from a photo of a document
- turn a scan into a searchable PDF
- extract a table from a scanned page
- parse a receipt into separate fields
- read contact details off a business card
Example prompts for the agent
- OCR
invoice_042.pngand give me the text as markdown - Pull the table from page 3 of
report_scan.pdfinto JSON - Parse
receipt.jpgand list the total, date and vendor
How to install ocr-document-processor
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills --skill ocr-document-processor -a claude-code2Manually: put the files in place
~/.claude/skills/ocr-document-processor/SKILL.mdCopy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ocr-document-processor/
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills --skill ocr-document-processor -a codex2Manually: put the files in place
.agents/skills/ocr-document-processor/SKILL.mdFor all projects use ~/.agents/skills/
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills --skill ocr-document-processor -a cursor2Manually: put the files in place
.cursor/skills/ocr-document-processor/SKILL.mdCursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/
1GitHub CLI
gh skill install dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills ocr-document-processor2Manually: put the files in place
.github/skills/ocr-document-processor/SKILL.md1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills --skill ocr-document-processor -a gemini-cli2Platform CLI
gemini skills install https://github.com/dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills --path ocr-document-processorManually: put the files in place
.devin/skills/ocr-document-processor/SKILL.mdThe legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works
Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills --skill ocr-document-processor -a opencodeClaude.ai
Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills
Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways
Questions about ocr-document-processor
How do I install ocr-document-processor in Claude Code?
Run npx skills add dkyazzentwatwa/chatgpt-skills --skill ocr-document-processor -a claude-code. The skill file then sits at ~/.claude/skills/ocr-document-processor/SKILL.md.
What does ocr-document-processor do?
It recovers text and structure from images and scanned PDFs: recognition, table extraction, receipt and business card parsing, plus searchable PDF output.
Does it handle regular digital PDFs?
No — those go to document-converter-suite by default. OCR is meant for scans and images.
