Convert PDF to Markdown

When to use this skill

Trigger this skill any time there is a .pdf file that needs to be understood or processed — for example, a user attaches a PDF and asks questions about it, wants a summary, wants specific data or tables pulled out, or wants multiple PDFs in a folder processed together. PDF is a layout/print format, not reliably readable as plain text, so always convert it to Markdown first using the script in this skill rather than trying to open or parse the file directly.

This skill only supports .pdf — that's MarkItDown's only PDF-family format, so there's no legacy format to worry about here (unlike Word's .doc or Excel's .xls).