convert-documents-to-markdown
Convert office documents, spreadsheets, presentations, ebooks, and PDFs into Markdown text that an agent can read. Save large conversions to a file and use hosted text recognition for scanned PDF pages when needed.
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Convert Word (.doc, .docx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), OpenDocument (.odt, .ods, .odp), RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF files to GitHub-Flavored Markdown. Use when a task needs the contents of an office document, spreadsheet, presentation, ebook, or PDF you cannot read directly.
Good for
- Prepare Word documents for an agent to read
- Convert spreadsheets and slides into Markdown
- Extract content from PDFs and ebooks
- Save large conversions for selective reading
Files included (1)
- SKILL.md1.8 KB
SKILL.md (original)
Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.
Convert documents to Markdown
Run the anydoc CLI. It needs Node 20+ and no install:
npx -y @firecrawl/anydoc <file> # Markdown to stdout
npx -y @firecrawl/anydoc <file> -o out.md # write to a file
npx -y @firecrawl/anydoc - --format csv < f # read stdin
Rules:
- Supported inputs:
.doc,.docx,.docm,.odt,.rtf,.epub,.pdf,.ppt,.pps,.pot,.pptx,.pptm,.ppsx,.ppsm,.odp,.xls,.xlsx,.xlsm,.xlsb,.ods,.csv. - The format is detected from the file content. Pass
--format <name>only when detection cannot work: CSV from stdin, or a missing or wrong extension. - Exit codes: 0 success, 1 the document could not be converted, 2 usage error, 3 pages of a PDF need OCR. Failures print one
anydoc: <message>line to stderr. The CLI never prompts. - For a large document, write to a file with
-oand read the parts you need instead of streaming everything into context. - Scanned and image-only pages need OCR, which anydoc does not do, so the document exits 3. Rerun with
--ocr hostedto send it to Firecrawl Parse. No signup needed. Pass--api-keyor setFIRECRAWL_API_KEYfor higher limits. - Inside a Node, Python, or Rust codebase, prefer the library over shelling out:
@firecrawl/anydocon npm,firecrawl-anydocon PyPI,anydocon crates.io. Each exposes the sameto_markdown/toMarkdownAPI.
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