Firecrawl Launches anydoc: Blazing Fast Local Document Parsing to Markdown in <5ms
devdigest · x · 2026-08-05
Firecrawl introduced anydoc, an open-source document parsing library designed to give AI agents 100x faster local file conversion into clean Markdown.
- Ultra-fast: Achieves sub-5ms Markdown conversion locally, processing 500 docx files in just 1.7 seconds.
- Broad Compatibility: Supports 13 major formats including PDF, DOCX, PPTX, and CSV, parsing them through a shared document model for consistent Markdown output.
- Tech Stack: Built in Rust with Node.js and Python bindings, already powering the hosted Firecrawl /parse endpoint.
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