| name | convert-documents-to-markdown |
| description | 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. |
| defaultProjectInstall | true |
| defaultProjectInstallOrder | 30 |
| metadata | {"source":"firecrawl/anydoc"} |
Convert documents to Markdown
The anydoc CLI is pre-installed in the sandbox. It converts one document per
invocation and writes GitHub-Flavored Markdown to stdout. It never prompts;
diagnostics go to stderr.
Usage
anydoc report.docx
anydoc slides.pptx -o slides.md
anydoc - --format csv < data.csv
Supported inputs: Word (.doc, .docx, .docm), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx, .ppsx),
Excel (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsb), OpenDocument (.odt, .ods, .odp), RTF, EPUB, CSV,
and PDF. The format is detected from file content; pass --format <name> when
detection fails (stdin CSV, missing extensions).
Exit codes: 0 success, 1 the document could not be read or converted,
2 usage error.
Guidelines
- For a large document, write to a file with
-o and read the parts you need
instead of streaming the whole conversion into context.
- Scanned or image-only PDFs need OCR, which anydoc does not do — they exit
1.
Use the OCR path in skills/pdf/SKILL.md (pytesseract + pdf2image).
- anydoc is read-only extraction. To create or edit files, use the format's own
skill:
skills/docx, skills/xlsx, skills/presentations, skills/pdf.
- For layout-aware PDF extraction (tables with coordinates, per-page bounding
boxes), use
pdfplumber from skills/pdf/SKILL.md.
