any2md 0.5.0

Convert PDF, DOCX, HTML, and TXT files — or web pages by URL — to clean, LLM-optimized Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

any2md

Convert PDF, DOCX, HTML, and TXT files — or web pages by URL — to clean, LLM-optimized Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

One command. Any format. Consistent, structured output ready for language models.

Quick Start

pip install any2md

any2md report.pdf
any2md https://example.com/article
any2md --help

Output lands in ./Text/ by default:

---
title: "Quarterly Financial Report"
source_file: "report.pdf"
pages: 12
type: pdf
---

# Quarterly Financial Report

Document content here...

Features

Feature	Description
Multi-format	PDF, DOCX, HTML (.html, .htm), TXT
URL fetching	Pass any http/https URL as input
YAML frontmatter	Title, source, page/word count, type
Batch processing	Single file, directory scan, or mixed inputs
Auto-routing	Dispatches to the correct converter by extension
Smart skip	Won't overwrite existing files unless --force
Filename sanitization	Spaces, special characters, unicode dashes handled
TXT structure detection	Infers headings, lists, code blocks from plain text
Title extraction	Pulls the first H1–H3 heading automatically
Link stripping	--strip-links removes hyperlinks, keeps text

Installation

Requires Python 3.8+.

pip install any2md

From source

git clone https://github.com/rocklambros/any2md.git
cd any2md
pip install .

Dependencies

Library	Purpose
PyMuPDF + pymupdf4llm	PDF extraction
mammoth + markdownify	DOCX conversion
trafilatura + BeautifulSoup	HTML/URL extraction

Usage

Basic conversion

# Single file
any2md report.pdf

# Multiple files
any2md report.pdf proposal.docx "meeting notes.pdf"

# HTML file
any2md page.html

# Web page by URL
any2md https://example.com/article

# Plain text file
any2md notes.txt

# Mixed batch — PDFs, DOCX, HTML, TXT, and URLs together
any2md doc.pdf page.html notes.txt https://example.com

Directory scanning

# Scan a specific directory
any2md --input-dir ./documents

# Convert everything in the current directory (default behavior)
any2md

Options

# Custom output directory
any2md -o ./converted report.pdf

# Overwrite existing files
any2md --force

# Strip hyperlinks from output
any2md --strip-links doc.pdf

# Combine options
any2md -f -o ./out --strip-links docs/*.pdf docs/*.docx

Alternative invocations

# Module mode (works without installing via pip)
python -m any2md report.pdf

# Legacy script (backward compatibility)
python3 mdconv.py report.pdf

Output Format

Every converted file has YAML frontmatter followed by cleaned Markdown. The frontmatter fields vary by source format:

PDF — includes page count:

---
title: "Quarterly Financial Report"
source_file: "Q3 Report 2024.pdf"
pages: 12
type: pdf
---

DOCX — includes word count:

---
title: "Project Proposal"
source_file: "proposal.docx"
word_count: 3847
type: docx
---

HTML file — includes word count:

---
title: "Page Title"
source_file: "page.html"
word_count: 1234
type: html
---

TXT — structure inferred via heuristics, includes word count:

---
title: "Meeting Notes"
source_file: "notes.txt"
word_count: 892
type: txt
---

URL — records source URL instead of filename:

---
title: "Article Title"
source_url: "https://example.com/article"
word_count: 567
type: html
---

CLI Reference

usage: any2md [-h] [--input-dir PATH] [--force] [--output-dir PATH] [--strip-links] [files ...]

Convert PDF, DOCX, HTML, and TXT files to LLM-optimized Markdown.

positional arguments:
  files                 Files or URLs to convert. Supports PDF, DOCX, HTML,
                        TXT files and http(s) URLs. If omitted, converts all
                        supported files in the current directory.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --input-dir, -i PATH  Directory to scan for supported files (PDF, DOCX, HTML, TXT)
  --force, -f           Overwrite existing .md files
  --output-dir, -o PATH Output directory (default: ./Text)
  --strip-links         Remove markdown links, keeping only the link text

Architecture

User Input (files, URLs, flags)
         │
         ▼
      cli.py ─── parse args, classify URLs vs file paths
         │
         ▼
converters/__init__.py ─── dispatch by extension
         │
    ┌────┼────┬────┐
    ▼    ▼    ▼    ▼
 pdf  docx  html  txt ─── format-specific extraction
    │    │    │    │
    └────┼────┴────┘
         ▼
      utils.py ─── clean, title-extract, sanitize, frontmatter
         │
         ▼
      Output ─── YAML frontmatter + Markdown → output_dir/

Extraction pipelines

Format	Pipeline
PDF	pymupdf4llm.to_markdown() → clean → frontmatter
DOCX	mammoth (DOCX → HTML) → markdownify (HTML → Markdown) → clean → frontmatter
HTML/URL	BS4 pre-clean → trafilatura extract (fallback: markdownify) → clean → frontmatter
TXT	structurize() heuristics (headings, lists, code blocks) → clean → frontmatter

Adding a new format

1. Create any2md/converters/newformat.py with a convert_newformat(path, output_dir, force, strip_links_flag) → bool function
2. Add the extension and function to CONVERTERS in any2md/converters/__init__.py
3. Add the extension to SUPPORTED_EXTENSIONS

License

MIT