md-exporter 3.6.0

An Agent Skill and Dify plugin to Convert markdown text into files in various formats such as DOCX, XLSX, PDF, PPTX and images.

Markdown Exporter

An Agent Skill and Dify plugin to Export Markdown Into Powerful Documents

• Author: bowenliang123

• GitHub Repository:

• Markdown Exporter can be used as:

Use As	Installation
Dify Plugin	Platform: Dify - Install from the Dify Marketplace. - Guide: Docs for Installing Dify Plugins.
Agent Skills (standalone)	Platform: SKILL.md is available for Any Agent Skills supported platform. - IDEs / CLIs (Claude Code, Trae, Codebuddy etc.) - Agent Frameworks ( LangChain DeepAgents, AgentScope etc.). - Local Import: Import the source code zip file. - Remote install: Run /plugin marketplace add bowenliang123/md_exporter on CLIs, installing as a Claude Marketplace plugin.
Python Package	Platform: Python - md-exporter on PyPI. Install by pip install md-exporter.

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✨ What is Markdown Exporter?

Markdown Exporter is a powerful toolset as an Agent Skill or a Dify plugin that transforms your Markdown text into a wide variety of professional formats. Whether you need to create polished reports, stunning presentations, organized spreadsheets, or code files—this tool has you covered.

With support for 15+ output formats, Markdown Exporter bridges the gap between simple text editing and professional document creation, all while maintaining the simplicity and elegance of Markdown syntax.

🎯 Why You'll Love It

• 🚀 Lightning Fast – Export your Markdown to multiple formats in milliseconds
• 🎨 Customizable – Use custom templates for DOCX and PPTX to match your brand
• 🔒 100% Private – All processing happens locally, no data ever leaves your environment
• 📊 Versatile – From documents to spreadsheets, presentations to code files
• 🌐 Multi-Language Support – Perfect for international teams and content

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🛠️ Introduction and Use Guide

Tools and Supported Formats

Tool	Input	Output
md_to_docx	📝 Markdown text	📄 Word document (.docx)
md_to_html		🌐 HTML file (.html)
md_to_html_text		🌐 HTML text string
md_to_pdf		📑 PDF file (.pdf)
md_to_png		🖼️ PNG image(s) of PDF pages
md_to_md		📝 Markdown file (.md)
md_to_ipynb		📓 Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb)
md_to_pptx	📝 Markdown slides in Pandoc style	🎯 PowerPoint (.pptx)
md_to_xlsx	📋 Markdown tables	📊 Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx)
md_to_csv		📋 CSV file (.csv)
md_to_json		📦 JSON/JSONL file (.json)
md_to_xml		🏷️ XML file (.xml)
md_to_latex		📝 LaTeX file (.tex)
md_to_codeblock	💻 Code blocks in Markdown	📁 Code files by language (.py, .js, .sh, etc.)
md_to_linked_image	🖼️ Image links in Markdown	🖼️ Downloaded image files

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📖 Usage Examples

Simply input your Markdown text, select your desired output format, and click export. It's that easy!

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🎨 Tool Showcases

📄 Markdown → DOCX

Create professional Word documents with beautiful formatting.

✨ Pro Tip: Custom Styling with Templates

The md_to_docx tool supports custom DOCX template files, giving you full control over your document's appearance.

What you can customize:

• Heading styles (fonts, sizes, colors)
• Paragraph formatting (spacing, indentation)
• Table styles and borders
• List styles and bullets
• And much more!

Check out the default docx template or create your own. Learn how at Customize or create new styles.

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📊 Markdown → XLSX

Convert your Markdown tables into polished Excel spreadsheets with auto-fitted columns and preserved data types.

Input:

| Name    | Age | City        |
|---------|-----|-------------|
| Alice   | 30  | New York    |
| Bowen   | 25  | Guangzhou   |
| Charlie | 35  | Tokyo       |
| David   | 40  | Miami       |

Output:

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🎯 Markdown → PPTX

Turn your Markdown into stunning PowerPoint presentations automatically.

✨ Syntax Requirements

Supported Features:

• ✅ Title slides
• ✅ Column Layout
• ✅ Tables
• ✅ Hyperlinks
• ✅ And more!

🎨 Custom Templates:

Use custom PPTX templates with slide masters to match your brand's visual identity. Learn how. Get the default pptx template.

The input Markdown must follow the syntax and guidance in Pandoc Slide Shows.

Input Example:

---
title: Markdown Exporter
author: Bowen Liang
---

# Introduction

## Welcome Slide

Welcome to our Markdown Exporter!

::: notes
Remember to greet the audience warmly.
:::

---

# Section 1: Basic Layouts

## Title and Content

- This is a basic slide with bullet points
- It uses the "Title and Content" layout
- Perfect for simple content presentation

## Two Column Layout

::::: columns
::: column
Left column content:
- Point 1
- Point 2
:::
::: column
Right column content:
- Point A
- Point B
:::
:::::

## Comparison Layout

::::: columns
::: column
Text followed by an image:

![Test Image](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127165244?s=48&v=4)
:::
::: column
- This triggers the "Comparison" layout
- Useful for side-by-side comparisons
:::
:::::

## Content with Caption

Here's some explanatory text about the image below.

![Test Image](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127165244?s=48&v=4 "fig:Test Image")

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# Section 2: Advanced Features

## Code Block

Here's a Python code block:

```python
def greet(name):
    return f"Hello, {name}!"

print(greet("World"))
```

## Table Example

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Row 1    | Data     | More     |
| Row 2    | Info     | Stuff    |

## Incremental List

::: incremental
- This point appears first
- Then this one
- And finally this one
:::

## {background-image="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127165244?s=48&v=4"}

::: notes
This is a slide with a background image and speaker notes only.
The "Blank" layout will be used.
:::

# Conclusion

## Thank You

Thank you for viewing this kitchen sink presentation!

::: notes
Remember to thank the audience and invite questions.
:::

Output:

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🌐 Markdown → HTML

Transform your Markdown into clean, semantic HTML perfect for web pages.

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📑 Markdown → PDF

Generate professional PDF documents perfect for printing or sharing.

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🖼️ Markdown → PNG

Convert your Markdown into beautiful PNG images. Great for:

• Social media posts
• Documentation screenshots
• Quick sharing in chat apps

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🏷️ Markdown → Jupyter Notebook

Transform your Markdown into Jupyter Notebook .ipynb format.

Input Example:

# Example Jupyter Notebook

This is a simplified test markdown file that will be converted to an IPYNB notebook with multiple cells.

## Introduction

This notebook demonstrates the conversion of markdown to IPYNB format.

- It includes markdown formatting
- It has code cells in different languages
- It shows how tables are handled

```python
# Python Code Cell
print("Hello, world!")
x = 10
y = 20
print(f"Sum: {x + y}")
```

## Data Table

Here's a sample table:

| Name  | Score | Occupation |
|-------|-------|------------|
| Alice | 80    | Engineer   |
| Bowen | 90    | Designer   |

## Conclusion

This concludes the simplified test notebook.

Output File:

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💻 Markdown → Code Block Files

Effortlessly extract code blocks from your Markdown and save them as individual files, preserving syntax highlighting and formatting.

Supported Languages & File Extensions

Language	File Extension	Language	File Extension
Python	.py	CSS	.css
JavaScript	.js	YAML	.yaml
HTML	.html	Ruby	.rb
Bash	.sh	Java	.java
JSON	.json	PHP	.php
XML	.xml	Markdown	.md
SVG	.svg

Pro Tip: Enable compression to bundle all extracted files into a single ZIP archive for easy sharing and organization!

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🖼️ Markdown → Linked Images

Automatically download all images referenced in your Markdown.

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📋 Markdown → CSV

Export your Markdown tables to universal CSV format.

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📦 Markdown → JSON / JSONL

Convert your tables into structured data formats.

JSONL Style (default)

• One JSON object per line
• Perfect for streaming and logging

JSON Array Style

• All objects in a single array
• Ideal for API responses

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🏷️ Markdown → XML

Transform your data into XML format.

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📝 Markdown → LaTeX

Generate LaTeX source code for academic and technical documents.

LaTeX Output:

Compiled PDF:

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📝 Markdown → Markdown

Save your Markdown content as a .md file for future use.

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📢 Releases

Releases are available at:

• GitHub Repo Releases
• Dify Marketplace Releases

Changelog

• 3.6.0

  • Improve conversion success rate in md_to_docx, md_to_pptx, and md_to_ipynb tools by removing enforcement of spaces and blank lines in heading headers
  • Speed up first call on pandoc by running the warm-up method

• 3.5.1

  • Correctly handle code cells by pre-processing markdown input in md_to_ipynb tool

• 3.5.0

  • Introduce md_to_ipynb tool for converting Markdown text to Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb) format
  • The md_to_ipynb tool automatically splits markdown content into separate notebook cells
  • Update logo icon (for the very first time)

• 3.4.0

  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Migrate md_to_pptx tool to use pandoc for conversion for stable features and reduced dependency footprint
  • The Markdown input for md_to_pptx tool now must follow the markdown syntax and guidance in Pandoc slides

• 3.3.0

  • Update md_to_pptx from 6.1.1 to 6.2.1
  • Remove md_to_mermaid tool to reduce installation time and footprint by eliminating Node.js runtime dependency

• 3.2.0

  • Introduce md_to_mermaid tool for converting Mermaid diagram code blocks in Markdown to PNG images
  • Refactor Agent Skill scripts and entry shell scripts

• 3.0.0

  • md_exporter is now ready for Agent Skills and runnable as standalone
    • Add SKILL.md for Agent Skills description
    • Add /scripts for code scripts of all tools as Agent Skills execution entry
    • Extract core file transformation logic into /scripts/lib shared by both Agent Skills scripts and Dify Plugin
    • Add pyproject.toml as Python project description and dependency management
  • Add automated tests covering all usage of Claude Skills scripts entry points
  • Bump md2pptx from 6.1 to 6.1.1 for table caption bug fix

• 2.3.0

  • Resolve XLSX generation issue by skipping irrelevant characters before first table in md_to_xlsx tool

• 2.2.0

  • Fix CI problems in GitHub Actions

• 2.1.0

  • Fix remote image fetching in md_to_pptx tool by updating md2pptx to 6.1
  • Fix missing table border in md_to_docx tool by updating default DOCX template file
  • Intercept run-python macro usage in md_to_pptx tool

• 2.0.0

  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Migrate md_to_docx tool to use pandoc for conversion
  • Major improvements in md_to_docx tool:
    • Support custom styling using a template DOCX file, allowing font, font size, and color style customization for headings, paragraphs, etc.
    • Optimize file size in generated DOCX files
    • Better support for multi-language content
  • Remove md_to_rst and md_to_epub tools
  • Add force_text_value option in md_to_xlsx tool to control whether to force convert all cell values to text strings

• 1.12.0

  • Fix optional PPTX template file handling in md_to_pptx tool
  • Fix error message with file path in command assembly in md_to_pptx tool
  • Bump md2pptx to 6.0

• 1.10.2

  • Bump md2pptx from 5.4.4 to 5.4.5
  • Bump python-docx from 1.1 to 1.2.0
  • Increase PDF generation capacity limit to 500MB

• 1.10.0

  • Support JSONL output style in md_to_json tool, using JSON Lines format with one object per line
  • Change default output style of md_to_json tool to JSONL
  • Minor documentation updates in parameter descriptions

• 1.9.0

  • Support custom sheet names in md_to_xlsx tool using headings in Markdown text
  • Force convert column types to string in md_to_xlsx tool to prevent data precision loss and display issues in Microsoft Excel
  • Autofit column width in md_to_xlsx tool

• 1.8.0

  • Resolve garbled character issues when opening CSV files containing non-ASCII characters (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, emoji characters) in Microsoft Excel

• 1.7.0

  • Support custom PPTX template files in md_to_pptx tool
  • Support file generation from multiple tables in md_to_csv, md_to_latex, and md_to_xlsx tools

• 1.6.0

  • Introduce md_to_html_text tool for converting Markdown text to HTML text
  • Standardize fonts for headings and body paragraphs in DOCX files generated by md_to_docx tool

• 1.5.0

  • Improve PDF display for pure English markdown text input in md_to_pdf tool by skipping font settings for CJK characters
  • Introduce md_to_epub tool for converting Markdown text to EPUB eBook files
  • Support compressing all PNG files into a single zip file in md_to_png tool
  • Increase capacity limit for PDF files to 100MB in md_to_pdf tool
  • Remove explicit timeout configuration MAX_REQUEST_TIMEOUT

• 1.4.100

  • Special version celebrating Dify's 100k GitHub stars milestone
  • Add md_to_png tool for converting Markdown text to PNG image files

• 1.3.0

  • Update SDK version

• 1.2.0

  • Support compressing images into a single zip file in md_to_linked_image tool

• 1.1.0

  • Enable line breaks normalization in all tools by default, replacing all occurrences of \n with \n
  • Remove <think> tags of reasoning content in input Markdown text
  • Fix missing custom output filename support in md_to_csv, md_to_json, and md_to_latex tools

• 1.0.1

  • Remove redundant URL-safe conversion in custom output filenames

• 1.0.0

  • Support custom output filenames

• 0.5.0

  • Introduce md_to_linked_image tool for extracting image files from links in Markdown text

• 0.4.3

  • Improve Chinese character display in text paragraphs in md_to_docx tool by setting global font to Song if content contains Chinese characters

• 0.4.2

  • Support Java, PHP, and Ruby file exporting in md_to_codeblock tool

• 0.4.1

  • Support YAML file exporting in md_to_codeblock tool

• 0.4.0

  • Support exporting Markdown codeblocks into a single zip file in md_to_codeblock tool

• 0.3.0

  • Fix library import error in md_to_pptx tool when running on self-hosted Dify plugin-daemon service

• 0.2.0

  • Introduce md_to_codeblock tool for extracting code blocks in Markdown to Python, JSON, JS, BASH, SVG, HTML, XML, and MARKDOWN files
  • Introduce md_to_rst tool for converting Markdown to reStructuredText (.rst) format

• 0.1.x

  • Introduce md_to_pptx tool for converting Markdown to PowerPoint (.pptx) format

• 0.0.x

  • Publish to Dify Marketplace
  • Support exporting Markdown to DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, HTML, MD, CSV, JSON, XML, and LaTeX files

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit issues or pull requests on our GitHub repository.

Code Style

We use ruff to ensure code consistency. Run the following command to automatically fix code style issues:

uv run ruff check --fix --select UP .

Or use the provided script:

dev/reformat.sh

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

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🔒 Privacy

Privacy matters. See the Privacy Policy for more details. This plugin:

• Collects NO data
• Processes everything locally
• Sends NO information to third-party services

All file transformations happen entirely within the local environment.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

This project stands on the shoulders of giants. We're grateful to these amazing open-source projects:

Project	License
pypandoc	MIT License
pandas	BSD 3-Clause License
xhtml2pdf	Apache License 2.0