document-converter

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the tedious, manual process of converting documents between formats and extracting content, saving you significant time and effort. It handles complex conversions and content extraction from various document types, allowing you to automate workflows that would otherwise be repetitive and error-prone.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Bidirectional Conversion: Seamlessly convert between Markdown, DOCX, and PDF formats.
• Intelligent Content Extraction: Accurately pull text and structured data from PDFs and DOCX files, with enhanced quality for PDF-to-Markdown using optional Gemini API integration.
• Automatic Tool Selection & Fallback: The skill intelligently detects and prioritizes available conversion tools (e.g., MarkItDown, Pandoc, PyMuPDF4LLM, Typst, XeLaTeX), ensuring the best possible output quality and reliability.
• Batch Processing: Convert multiple files at once, processing entire directories concurrently to save hours of manual work.
• Use Case: Imagine you have a folder of 50 PDF research papers. Use this Skill to automatically convert them all to Markdown, making their content easily searchable and analyzable for your literature review.

Quick Start

Convert the attached 'report.pdf' to Markdown. Then, convert 'notes.md' to a DOCX file.