convert-documents-to-markdown

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. license MIT metadata {"author":"firecrawl"} 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 -o and 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 hosted to send it to Firecrawl Parse . No signup needed. Pass --api-key or set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY for higher limits. 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.