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markdown-converter

Skill448 starsChanged 5 days agoMITView on GitHub

Convert PDF, Office, HTML, data, media, ZIP to Markdown.

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  • antoniolgSkill

    create-cli

    Design command-line interface parameters and UX: arguments, flags, subcommands, help text, output formats, error messages, exit codes, prompts, config/env precedence, and safe/dry-run behavior. Use when you’re designing a CLI spec (before implementation) or refactoring an existing CLI’s surface area for consistency, composability, and discoverability.

    Also in 3 projects that use this

  • BlockSkill

    frontend-design

    Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

    Also in 3 projects that use this

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1 rule. 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

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    Distinctive

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    Very specific

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  1. Very specific:

    When uvx is missing, run pipx run 'markitdown[all]' … with the same arguments.

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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 3 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.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
Files
SKILL.md

Markdown Converter

Convert a file to Markdown with markitdown, zero install:

uvx 'markitdown[all]' input.pdf -o output.md   # to file
uvx 'markitdown[all]' input.docx               # to stdout
cat blob | uvx 'markitdown[all]' -x .pdf       # stdin, with extension hint

When uvx is missing, run pipx run 'markitdown[all]' … with the same arguments. First run downloads dependencies; later runs hit the cache. Output preserves headings, tables, lists, and links.

For video transcripts, use the video-editing skill.

Formats

InputNotes
PDF, .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .xlsDocument structure preserved
HTML, CSV, JSON, XMLStructured Markdown
ImagesEXIF metadata + OCR text
AudioEXIF metadata + speech transcription
ZIP, EPubIterates contents, converts each

Options

FlagEffect
-o FILEWrite output to FILE
-x .EXTExtension hint for stdin input
-m MIMEMIME-type hint
-c CHARSETCharset hint, e.g. UTF-8

Error handling

Garbled or empty text from a scanned PDF

Cause: page is an image; the base extractor reads text layers only. Solution: render pages to images (pdftoppm), then convert the images so OCR runs.

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