anydoc

# anydoc

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Fast Rust library that converts documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF) into clean GitHub-Flavored Markdown. Includes bindings for [Node.js](node/README.md), [Python](python/README.md), and the [browser](wasm/README.md) (WebAssembly).

Built by [Firecrawl](https://firecrawl.dev) to turn any office document into LLM-ready Markdown in single-digit milliseconds, with one consistent output no matter which format goes in. It powers [Firecrawl Parse](https://firecrawl.dev/parse), so if you'd rather not run it yourself, the hosted API gives you the same conversion plus our OCR models for the scanned pages anydoc can't read on its own.

**[Try it in your browser](https://firecrawl.github.io/anydoc/)**: the demo page runs the library as WebAssembly, so files are converted locally and never leave your machine.

## Quick start

### Agent skill

anydoc ships as an [Agent Skill](https://agentskills.io), so your agent can read any document it runs into:

```bash
npx skills add firecrawl/anydoc
```

The [skill](skills/convert-documents-to-markdown/SKILL.md) teaches the agent to convert documents with the anydoc CLI. Works with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code), [Codex](https://openai.com/codex/), [Cursor](https://cursor.com), [OpenCode](https://opencode.ai), and any other [compatible agent](https://agentskills.io/clients).

### CLI

```bash
npx @firecrawl/anydoc report.docx               # Markdown to stdout
npx @firecrawl/anydoc slides.pptx -o slides.md  # or to a file
npx @firecrawl/anydoc - --format csv < data.csv # read stdin
npx @firecrawl/anydoc scan.pdf --ocr hosted     # scanned pages via Firecrawl Parse
```

`npx` downloads the prebuilt binary for your platform on first run. For a permanent `anydoc` command, install globally with `npm install -g @firecrawl/anydoc`. Run `anydoc --help` for all options.

### Node.js

```bash
npm install @firecrawl/anydoc
```

```js
import { toDocument, toMarkdown, toMarkdownBytes } from '@firecrawl/anydoc';

// From a file path:
const markdown = await toMarkdown('report.docx');

// To enable OCR:
const markdown = await toMarkdown('report.docx', { ocr: 'hosted' );

// From bytes, with the format detected from the content:
const fromBytes = await toMarkdownBytes(bytes);

// Or name it, which signature-less formats (CSV) need:
const fromCsv = await toMarkdownBytes(bytes, 'csv');

// Or stop at the document model, which also carries embedded assets:
const document = await toDocument(bytes);
```

> Full API ref