pdf-to-markdown

pdf-to-markdown is a skill for Claude Code from pamelafox/presentation-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for converting PDF documents into Markdown, a plain-text format commonly used for documentation and source files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract text from reports, manuals, papers, or other PDFs into a Markdown file.
Why use it?
It makes PDF text easier to read, edit, search, summarize, and reuse in developer workflows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to extract text from reports, manuals, papers, or other PDFs into a Markdown file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pamelafox/presentation-skills/pdf-to-markdown
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add pamelafox/presentation-skills --skill pdf-to-markdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pamelafox/presentation-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 403 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.00403
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00201
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00040

Measured 11d ago against content hash a58786fa0ce6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-to-markdown scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/pdf-to-markdown/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

PDF to Markdown Conversion

This skill converts PDF files to Markdown format using Microsoft's markitdown package.

When to use

  • User asks to convert a PDF to Markdown
  • User wants to extract text content from a PDF
  • User needs to read or parse a PDF document
  • User asks to summarize or analyze a PDF file

How to use

Use uvx to run markitdown directly. Pick the dependency group matching the file type:

File type Dependency group
PDF pdf
PowerPoint (.pptx) pptx
Word (.docx) docx
Excel (.xlsx) xlsx
Excel (.xls) xls
uvx 'markitdown[pdf]' <path-to-file> -o output.md

Or install all optional dependencies at once:

uvx 'markitdown[all]' <path-to-file> -o output.md

Examples

uvx 'markitdown[pdf]' report.pdf -o report.md
uvx 'markitdown[pptx]' slides.pptx -o slides.md
uvx 'markitdown[docx]' document.docx -o document.md

Output

  • If you were asked to save the output to a specific file, save it to the requested file using -o.
  • If no output file was specified, use the source filename with a .md suffix.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 52 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A a58786fa0ce6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-to-markdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository pamelafox/presentation-skills (117 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 403 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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