# Tools

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Resources for Full-stack / Indie or Research / Academia, Tagged `rag`, `python`: 8 items.

> - Full-stack / Indie: General software work: coding-agent workflows, code review, debugging and Git collaboration.
> - Research / Academia: Literature search and reviews, experimental data analysis, paper writing and submission.

- [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+.
- [Crawl4AI](https://hebbmind.com/cli/crawl4ai.md): [CLI] 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.
- [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.
- [Skill Seekers](https://hebbmind.com/cli/skill-seekers.md): [CLI] Turns 18 kinds of sources, including doc sites, GitHub repos, PDFs and videos, into skill packages for Claude and other platforms, or exports RAG chunks and vector store data. Optional MCP server, and it can call a local agent like Claude Code to enrich content. Needs Python 3.10+.
- [PaperQA2](https://hebbmind.com/cli/paper-qa.md): [CLI] High-accuracy retrieval-augmented Q&A over paper PDFs, text and Office documents, filling in citation metadata, checking retractions and attaching traceable sources to answers. Provides the pqa CLI and a Python library. Needs an LLM API key by default; local models can be configured.
- [LangChain Skills](https://hebbmind.com/skill/langchain-skills.md): [Skill] LangChain's official skill collection: framework selection, quickstarts, middleware, persistence, human-in-the-loop approval, RAG and eval design across LangChain, LangGraph and Deep Agents, in Python and TypeScript. Also installable as a Claude Code plugin. Still in early development.
- [Docling MCP](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/docling-mcp.md): [MCP] The Docling project's official MCP: converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint and more into structured documents with layout and table detection and OCR for scans, and lets agents build new documents paragraph by paragraph and export Markdown. Local mode needs Python and uv, or use your own Docling Serve.