anydoc

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.

Convert documents to Markdown

Run the anydoc CLI and write Markdown to stdout or a file:

bash

anydoc <file>              # Markdown to stdout
anydoc <file> -o out.md    # write to a file
anydoc - --format csv < f  # read stdin

First-time install

If command -v anydoc fails, install the PATH-first wrapper used on this workstation:

bash

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
cat > ~/.local/bin/anydoc <<'EOF'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

exec bunx @firecrawl/anydoc@latest "$@"
EOF
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/anydoc

Requirements and checks:

1. Keep ~/.local/bin on PATH ahead of later package-manager bin dirs.
2. Requires Bun so bunx can fetch @firecrawl/anydoc@latest.
3. Verify with command -v anydoc and anydoc -V.
4. Prefer this wrapper over a permanent Bun/npm global install of @firecrawl/anydoc.

Rules

1. Supported inputs: .doc, .docx, .docm, .odt, .rtf, .epub, .pdf, .ppt, .pps, .pot, .pptx, .pptm, .ppsx, .ppsm, .odp, .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .ods, .csv.
2. 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.
3. Exit codes: 0 success, 1 the document could not be converted, 2 usage error. Failures print one anydoc: <message> line to stderr. The CLI never prompts.
4. For a large document, write to a file with -o and read the parts you need instead of streaming everything into context.
5. Scanned and image-only PDFs need OCR, which anydoc does not do; they fail as unsupported. The hosted Firecrawl Parse API handles those.
6. 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.