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markitdown-converter

Skill9 starsChanged 6 months agoMITView on GitHub

Convert any document (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, HTML, CSV, etc.) to Markdown using the markitdown CLI tool before reading.

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    1. zunyiqingfeng-code/skills★ 2same name
    2. ci4me/CQRSTemplate★ 0same name

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  1. Very specific:

    Before reading non-markdown files, always convert them to Markdown first using the markitdown tool.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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Files
SKILL.md

MarkItDown Converter

Before reading non-markdown files, always convert them to Markdown first using the markitdown tool.

Installation

markitdown is installed at /home/panxiandong/.local/bin/markitdown and should be in PATH.

Usage

# Convert a file to markdown and print to stdout
markitdown <file_path>

# Or use the alias
markitdown_convert <file_path>

Supported Formats

FormatExtension
PDF.pdf
Word.docx
Excel.xlsx, .xls
PowerPoint.pptx
HTML.html, .htm
CSV.csv
JSON.json
XML.xml
EPUB.epub
Outlook Message.msg
RTF.rtf
Jupyter Notebook.ipynb
Plain Text.txt
Audio (metadata).wav, .mp3
Images (OCR).jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .webp, .svg
Markdown (passthrough).md

Implementation

The tool is a Python wrapper script at ~/.local/bin/markitdown that patches out the heavy magika ML dependency (onnxruntime was too large to download) with a lightweight file-extension + magic-bytes based detector. The core conversion uses Microsoft's markitdown Python package.

Venue: ~/.hermes/markitdown-env/

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