# Tools

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Resources for Full-stack / Indie or Data engineering, Tagged `python`, `pdf`: 5 items.

> - Full-stack / Indie: General software work: coding-agent workflows, code review, debugging and Git collaboration.
> - Data engineering: Data pipelines, warehouse modeling, ETL and data quality.

- [MarkItDown](https://hebbmind.com/cli/markitdown.md): [CLI] 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+.
- [Docling](https://hebbmind.com/cli/docling.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Marker](https://hebbmind.com/cli/marker.md): [CLI] Converts PDFs, images, PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, EPUB and more into Markdown, JSON or HTML, preserving tables, formulas and layout, with optional LLM help for higher accuracy. Needs Python 3.10+ and PyTorch; large-scale commercial use of the model weights needs a paid license.
- [book-to-skill](https://hebbmind.com/skill/book-to-skill.md): [Skill] Distills technical books, doc folders or paper collections (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, Markdown and more) into an agent skill with a core framework, on-demand chapter files, glossary and cheat sheet for lookup while working. Extraction needs local Python; poppler or docling optional for PDFs.
- [WeasyPrint](https://hebbmind.com/cli/weasyprint.md): [CLI] Rendering engine that lays out HTML and CSS and exports PDF, supporting paged media and other print style standards, ideal for generating reports, invoices and receipts in bulk. Written in Python; depends on the system Pango library.