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convert-documents-to-markdown

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.

How do I install this agent skill?

npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/anydoc --skill convert-documents-to-markdown
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Is this agent skill safe to install?

  • Gen Agent Trust Hubpass

    This skill enables document conversion from various formats (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.) to Markdown using the author's 'anydoc' utility. All external dependencies are official vendor resources, and the skill follows standard practices for document processing.

  • Socketpass

    No alerts

  • Snykpass

    Risk: LOW · No issues

What does this agent skill do?

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:

  1. Supported inputs: .doc, .docx, .docm, .odt, .rtf, .epub, .pdf, .ppt, .pps, .pot, .pptx, .pptm, .ppsx, .ppsm, .odp, .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .ods, .csv.
  2. 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.
  3. Exit codes: 0 success, 1 the document could not be converted, 2 usage error. Failures print one anydoc: <message> line to stderr. The CLI never prompts.
  4. For a large document, write to a file with -o and read the parts you need instead of streaming everything into context.
  5. Scanned and image-only PDFs need OCR, which anydoc does not do; they fail as unsupported. The hosted Firecrawl Parse API handles those.
  6. Inside a Node, Python, or Rust codebase, prefer the library over shelling out: @firecrawl/anydoc on npm, firecrawl-anydoc on PyPI, anydoc on crates.io. Each exposes the same to_markdown / toMarkdown API.

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