anydoc

name	anydoc
description	Convert Word (.doc/.docx/.docm), PowerPoint (.ppt/.pps/.pot/.pptx/.pptm/.ppsx/.ppsm), Excel (.xls/.xlsx/.xlsm/.xlsb), OpenDocument (.odt/.ods/.odp), RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF documents to clean GitHub-Flavored Markdown locally with the Any Doc CLI (npx -y @firecrawl/anydoc@0.2.4): headings, GFM tables, slide structure, and footnotes in one pass. Use when a task needs the contents of an office document, spreadsheet, presentation, ebook, or PDF you cannot read directly. Do not use for generating, editing, or validating documents (use documents), for ebook packaging (use epub). For scanned or image-only PDFs, use hosted OCR only when the user explicitly authorizes whole-document upload; otherwise route to local OCR tooling.
license	MIT
compatibility	Node.js >= 20 and npx. The pinned CLI is @firecrawl/anydoc@0.2.4; the native binary ships via npm optionalDependencies (no install step, no postinstall, no compilation). Local conversion needs no service or API key. Hosted OCR sends the whole PDF to Firecrawl Parse and may use FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. The first npx run downloads the package once (network required); later runs use the npm cache.
metadata	{"skills":"anydoc, markdown, conversion, docx, xlsx, pptx, pdf, odt, ods, odp, rtf, epub, csv, office, documents, firecrawl","tags":"conversion, markdown, office, documents","source":"https://github.com/firecrawl/anydoc"}
allowed-tools	Bash Read

Any Doc — office documents to GitHub-Flavored Markdown

The anydoc skill converts office documents, spreadsheets, presentations, ebooks, CSV, and text-based PDFs into GitHub-Flavored Markdown using the pinned Any Doc CLI (@firecrawl/anydoc v0.2.4). One shared document model and one GFM serializer produce the same logical output across formats. Local conversion runs without a service, API key, or file upload; hosted OCR is a separate explicit route.

Overview

Load this skill when a task needs the contents of a document the agent cannot read directly: a Word report to summarize, a spreadsheet to turn into a table, a slide deck to extract, a CSV to analyze, or an ebook or PDF to quote from.

The skill ships a small Python helper (scripts/anydoc) that wraps the pinned CLI and adds input pre-validation, friendly error hints, batch conversion, and --dry-run/--json output. Every recipe in references/workflows.md also shows the raw npx invocation, so the skill works with or without the helper.

First-use decision gate

Before invoking anydoc, classify the request:

If the user needs...	Do this
The contents of an existing supported document	Continue to Command Map.
Generation, editing, validation, EPUB packaging, HTML scraping, or password decryption	Stop and use the route in When not to use.
A format-fidelity or failure decision	Load the matching row in Reference Routing before choosing a command.
A conversion result	Choose stdout, -o, or batch; run it; then follow Verification.

Hard boundary: local anydoc conversion reads existing supported documents to Markdown without uploading them. Hosted OCR is opt-in only: it sends the whole OCR-required PDF to the configured Parse service. AnyDoc does not create, edit, validate, package, decrypt, or scrape documents.

When to use

• Convert a document to markdown — Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, or text-based PDF.
• Extract structure — headings, GFM tables, slide titles, speaker notes (as blockquotes), and footnotes.