Firecrawl open-sources anydoc: Rust library converts Word, PPT, Excel, PDF to Markdown in milliseconds
tom_doerr · x · 2026-09-03
Firecrawl has open-sourced anydoc, a fast Rust library that converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF documents into clean GitHub-Flavored Markdown.
- Single consistent output across formats, with single-digit-millisecond conversion times, designed to make office documents LLM-ready
- Ships Node.js and Python bindings plus a WebAssembly demo, so files can be converted locally in the browser without uploading
- Includes an agent skill (convert-documents-to-markdown) for plugging into coding agent workflows
- It powers Firecrawl Parse; the hosted API adds OCR for scanned pages the library can't read on its own
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