Document Skills - Office Document Processing
Comprehensive toolkit for creating, editing, and analyzing Microsoft Office and PDF documents with professional formatting, tracked changes, and content manipulation.
Key Benefits
- Multi-format support: .docx, .pdf, .pptx, .xlsx
- Professional document creation and editing
- Tracked changes and redlining workflows
- Text extraction and content analysis
- Raw XML/OOXML access for advanced manipulation
- Formatting preservation and complex layouts
- Comment management and collaboration features
Core Capabilities
- Word (.docx): Create with docx-js library, edit with Document library (Python OOXML), tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, text extraction, redlining workflows
- PDF: Text extraction with pandoc, structure preservation, conversion to/from other formats
- PowerPoint (.pptx): Presentation creation and editing, slide manipulation, content extraction
- Excel (.xlsx): Spreadsheet processing, data extraction, formula handling
When to Use
- Creating professional Word documents from scratch
- Editing existing Office documents with tracked changes
- Extracting text and content from documents
- Analyzing document structure and metadata
- Managing comments and collaboration features
- Converting between document formats
- Processing legal, academic, business, or government documents
- Implementing redlining workflows for document review
Workflow Decision Tree
Reading/Analyzing Content:
- Text extraction: Use pandoc conversion to markdown
- Structure/comments/formatting: Raw XML access via OOXML unpacking
Creating New Document:
- Use docx-js (JavaScript/TypeScript) for Word document creation
Editing Existing Document:
- Own document + simple changes: Basic OOXML editing
- Others' documents/professional contexts: Redlining workflow (recommended/required)
Proprietary license - see LICENSE.txt in repository for complete terms.
Source: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer/tree/main/skills/document-skills License: Proprietary
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