Tools

From Microsoft: converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML and other files or URLs to Markdown so agents can read and search them. A single convert_to_markdown tool over STDIO or local HTTP.

Converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, images, audio and more into Markdown that keeps headings, lists and tables, ready for LLMs to read and analyze. Maintained by Microsoft; requires Python 3.10+.

Anthropic's document skills, the implementation behind Claude's file features: create, edit and analyze Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files, including tracked changes, comments, formulas and form filling. Source-available, not under an open-source license.

Flags and rewrites AI-sounding text using 25 patterns drawn from Wikipedia's 'Signs of AI writing', keeping the meaning without inventing facts. Give it a writing sample to match your own voice.

Marketing skills for technical marketers and founders: 50 skills covering conversion optimization, copywriting, SEO and AI search, paid ads, email and cold outreach, pricing, customer research and launch strategy, all sharing one product-marketing context.

In-process analytical SQL database. Its CLI queries CSV, Parquet and JSON files directly with SQL, no import or server needed, so agents can sample and aggregate large files. Officially maintained.

Google's open-source database MCP server with ready-made query and SQL tools for dozens of sources, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Spanner and MongoDB. Define controlled custom queries in tools.yaml.

Guides users through co-writing proposals, technical specs and decision docs in three stages: gather context, refine section by section, then test with a fresh session that lacks the context to catch what readers won't understand. Official Anthropic skill.

Creates, reads and edits Word documents: tables of contents, page numbers and letterheads, tracked changes, comments and find-and-replace, while preserving existing formatting. The official Anthropic skill behind Claude's document features; source-available, not open source.

Writes internal communications in familiar company formats: 3P updates, leadership reports, project status updates, company newsletters, FAQs and incident reports. Official Anthropic skill.

Official Claude Code plugin for the prompts.chat library: search prompts and Agent Skills from your coding assistant, fill in variables and improve prompts with AI. Includes commands, subagents and a remote MCP; saving your own prompts needs an API key.

Official MCP reference server for reading, writing, editing, moving and searching local files within an allowlist of directories, adjustable at runtime through Roots. Handy for organizing documents from a desktop client.

Baidu PaddlePaddle's official OCR and document parsing tool: the paddleocr command reads text from images and parses PDFs and scans into Markdown or JSON, supporting 100+ languages with models that run locally.

Astral's extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust, replacing pip, pipx, poetry, pyenv and more. Supports lockfiles and multiple Python versions, and uvx runs Python tools without installing them.

Static site generator written in Go that builds Markdown content into docs sites, blogs or landing pages in seconds, with a local preview server and an asset pipeline for images, CSS and JS.

MCP server built into the adaptive Python scraping framework Scrapling: supports plain HTTP requests, browser rendering and stealth fetching, and uses CSS selectors to pass only the target content to the AI, saving tokens and filtering out prompt injection.

Adaptive web scraping framework: scrapling extract turns a page into Markdown, text or HTML in one command, with CSS selectors and browser rendering for dynamic pages, plus an MCP server (needs the ai extra). Needs Python 3.10+ and a browser install on first use.

Open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler that turns pages into clean Markdown for RAG and agents. Ships the crwl CLI and supports deep crawling and question-driven data extraction (extraction needs an LLM key). Free to self-host.

Document parser from OpenDataLab that turns PDFs, images and Office files into Markdown or JSON, handling tables, formulas and complex layouts well, with page-by-page reading and citation anchors for agents. Parses locally by default; needs Python 3.10+.

Curated index of Claude skills with about 30 practical skills in the repo (resume tailoring, content research and writing, file organization, meeting analysis) plus 800+ automation skills that reach third-party apps via Composio, which need Rube MCP and account authorization.

Classic open-source OCR engine and CLI that reads text from images and outputs plain text, hOCR, searchable PDF or TSV. Supports 100+ languages; install the language data for each language you need.

Parses PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images and audio, recovering layout, reading order, tables and formulas, and exports Markdown, HTML or lossless JSON. Started by IBM Research, now hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation; runs fully locally.

'rsync for cloud storage': sync and copy files across dozens of providers such as S3, Google Drive, OneDrive and Alibaba Cloud OSS, with encryption and mounting. Set up remotes with rclone config before use.

Modern markup-based typesetting system, a LaTeX alternative for papers, reports and resumes. Fast incremental compilation; typst compile outputs a PDF in one command and watch mode recompiles automatically.