markitdown-skill

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This skill provides documentation and utilities for converting documents to Markdown using the markitdown CLI and Python API. It includes shell commands (pip install 'markitdown[all]', markitdown ...), a batch script (scripts/batch_convert.py), and instructs setting AZURE_DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_KEY and calling external endpoints like https://your-endpoint.cognitiveservices.azure.com/.

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markitdown-skill

📄 OpenClaw agent skill for converting documents to Markdown.

Documentation and utilities for Microsoft's MarkItDown library.

Author: Karman Verma

What This Skill Is

This skill provides:

  • ✅ Documentation for using MarkItDown
  • ✅ A batch conversion script (scripts/batch_convert.py)
  • ✅ Usage examples and API reference

The actual document conversion is done by Microsoft's markitdown CLI, installed separately via pip.

Install

Via ClawHub

clawhub install markitdown-skill
pip install 'markitdown[all]'  # Install the CLI

Manual

cd ~/.openclaw/skills
git clone https://github.com/karmanverma/markitdown-skill.git markitdown
pip install 'markitdown[all]'

Quick Start

# Convert PDF
markitdown document.pdf -o output.md

# Fetch web docs
markitdown https://example.com/docs -o docs.md

# Batch convert
python ~/.openclaw/skills/markitdown/scripts/batch_convert.py docs/*.pdf -o markdown/

Supported Formats

FormatFeatures
PDFText extraction
Word (.docx)Headings, lists, tables
PowerPointSlides, text
ExcelTables, sheets
ImagesOCR + metadata
AudioSpeech transcription
HTMLStructure preservation
YouTubeVideo transcription

Documentation

  • SKILL.md - Main documentation
  • USAGE-GUIDE.md - Detailed examples
  • reference.md - Full API reference
  • POST_INSTALL.md - Setup guide

Credits

License

MIT