What problem does it solve? Reading content out of local documents like PDFs, Word files, and spreadsheets is tedious and often produces messy output. This Skill converts those files into clean markdown saved to disk, so the content can be searched, summarized, or queried without loading the entire document into context. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Local file to markdown conversion: Parse PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, and HTML files into well-formatted markdown written to a specified output path. - AI summaries and Q&A: Generate a summary of a document with the -S flag or ask a specific question about its content with -Q. - Context-safe output handling: Results are saved to a .firecrawl/ directory so large parsed documents can be read incrementally with head, grep, or rg instead of flooding the conversation. - Use Case: A user drops a 40-page research PDF into the project and asks for its main conclusions; the Skill parses it to .firecrawl/paper.md and answers the question without dumping the full text into context. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to parse a local file such as "parse ./report.pdf and save the markdown output", optionally requesting a summary or a specific question about its contents.
