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Turn a local document into clean markdown on disk. Supports **PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, HTML/HTM/XHTML**.
Converts local PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, images via OCR, and audio files to clean Markdown using Microsoft's markitdown CLI. Best for text extraction from local documents.
Converts files (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, HTML, images via OCR, audio, CSV) and URLs (YouTube, JS-rendered pages) to clean Markdown using MarkItDown, trafilatura, and Playwright. For LLM/RAG pipelines.
Converts PDF files to Markdown using opendataloader-pdf, extracting text, tables, headings, lists, and images in correct reading order. For PDF parsing, document extraction, and AI/LLM/RAG data preparation.
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Turn a local document into clean markdown on disk. Supports PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, HTML/HTM/XHTML.
scrape instead when the source is a URLAlways save to .firecrawl/ with -o — parsed docs can be hundreds of KB and blow up context if streamed to stdout. Add .firecrawl/ to .gitignore.
mkdir -p .firecrawl
# File → markdown
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -o .firecrawl/paper.md
# AI summary
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -S -o .firecrawl/paper-summary.md
# Ask a question about the doc
firecrawl parse ./paper.pdf -Q "What are the main conclusions?" \
-o .firecrawl/paper-qa.md
Then head, grep, rg etc., or incrementally read the file - don't load the whole thing at once.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-S, --summary | AI-generated summary |
-Q, --query <prompt> | Ask a question about the parsed content |
-o, --output <path> | Output file path — always use this |
-f, --format <fmt> | markdown (default), html, summary |
--timeout <ms> | Timeout for the parse job |
--timing | Show request duration |
firecrawl parse "./My Doc.pdf" -o .firecrawl/mydoc.md..firecrawl/ before re-parsing the same file.firecrawl credit-usage command.