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pdf-to-markdown

Skill248 starsChanged 7 months agoMITView on GitHub

Converts PDF files to Markdown using Microsoft's markitdown package. Use this skill when the user asks to convert a PDF to Markdown, extract text from a PDF, or read/parse PDF content.

14 other projects use a version of this, 2 of them edited.

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 11 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 0

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 3

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Very specific:

    Use uvx to run markitdown directly.

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  2. Very specific:

    If you were asked to save the output to a specific file, save it to the requested file using -o.

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  3. Very specific:

    If no output file was specified, use the source filename with a .md suffix.

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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 11 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

PDF to Markdown Conversion

This skill converts PDF files to Markdown format using Microsoft's markitdown package.

When to use

  • User asks to convert a PDF to Markdown
  • User wants to extract text content from a PDF
  • User needs to read or parse a PDF document
  • User asks to summarize or analyze a PDF file

How to use

Use uvx to run markitdown directly. Pick the dependency group matching the file type:

File typeDependency group
PDFpdf
PowerPointpptx
Worddocx
Excel (.xlsx)xlsx
Excel (.xls)xls
uvx 'markitdown[pdf]' <path-to-file> -o output.md

Or install all optional dependencies at once:

uvx 'markitdown[all]' <path-to-file> -o output.md

Examples

uvx 'markitdown[pdf]' report.pdf -o report.md
uvx 'markitdown[pptx]' slides.pptx -o slides.md
uvx 'markitdown[docx]' document.docx -o document.md

Output

  • If you were asked to save the output to a specific file, save it to the requested file using -o.
  • If no output file was specified, use the source filename with a .md suffix.

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