document-converter
Installation
SKILL.md
document-converter
Purpose
Convert documents between formats and perform PDF operations using local, free, offline tools. No API key, no cost, no internet required. Supports Office formats, PDF manipulation, image-to-PDF, and OCR using LibreOffice, ghostscript, pdftk, tesseract, and imagemagick.
When to Use
- Converting Office documents (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, ODP, ODT) to PDF or HTML
- Converting PDF pages to images (PNG, JPG, TIFF) or images to PDF
- PDF operations: merge multiple PDFs, split by page range, rotate pages, encrypt or decrypt
- OCR: extract searchable text from scanned PDFs or image files
- Any document format conversion that does not involve video or audio
Do NOT use for:
- Video or audio format conversion (use a dedicated media skill)
- Converting code between programming languages
- Simple markdown → HTML (use pandoc directly)
- Structured text extraction from PDFs (use
docling-converterinstead)