# OCR and Documents

> OCR and Documents is an Agent Skill for documents published in the agentic-in/elephant-agent repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Recover text from scanned or image-heavy documents before attempting structured analysis or downstream writing tasks.

- Skill name: `OCR and Documents`
- Category: [Documents](https://www.openparable.com/skill/documents/1)
- Source: https://github.com/agentic-in/elephant-agent/blob/HEAD/packages/skills/builtin_packages/productivity/ocr-and-documents/SKILL.md
- Repository: agentic-in/elephant-agent (574 GitHub stars when collected)

## SKILL.md

# OCR and Documents

Use this skill when a document is not directly machine-readable.

## Preferred Flow

1. Determine whether the file is text-native or scanned.
2. Run OCR first when the text layer is missing or broken.
3. Preserve page order, tables, and obvious headings where possible.
4. Only after extraction should you summarize or transform the content.

## Guardrails

- State clearly when OCR confidence is low.
- Do not fabricate unreadable text.

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