office-to-markdown

What problem does it solve?

Office documents from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF often live in formats that are hard to parse for AI tooling, version control, or knowledge extraction. This Skill converts Office files to clean Markdown using Microsoft's markitdown library, preserving structure and enabling easy archival and RAG corpus creation.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Batch convert Office formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf) to Markdown with optional image descriptions via Claude.
• Preserve metadata and produce Markdown-ready content suitable for AI processing and documentation archives.
• Use cases include transforming reports, spreadsheets, slides, and PDFs into searchable, reusable Markdown for documentation, knowledge bases, and RAG pipelines.

Quick Start

Convert a folder of documents to Markdown using a single command and store results with preserved metadata.