anydoc

Convert documents to Markdown

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

anydoc               # Markdown to stdout
anydoc  -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:

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 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: 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.