anymdAny file → clean Markdown for AI agents

PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, HTML and web pages, images (OCR), audio and video (metadata, subtitles, transcripts). A fast Rust MCP server and CLI that runs on your machine. No API key.

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$ npx -y @sylphx/anymd setup

Adds anymd to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Windsurf and Gemini CLI. Needs Node 18+.

1,000+ GitHub stars · 10,000+ npm downloads a month · MIT licensed

Fast

Native Rust converts in parallel, page by page, with no models to load. The benchmarks list the measured times.

Accurate layout

Words rebuilt from glyph gaps, two-column papers in reading order, tables recovered, including borderless ones. No glued words, no scrambled columns.

Token-lean

Markdown with page anchors, a small front-matter header, and compact tables. A token budget and a cursor keep big documents inside your context.

Every format

One read call handles PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV, EPUB, HTML and URLs, images, audio, and video.

Search everything

Search files, whole folders, and URLs at once. Exact phrases first, BM25-ranked passages when nothing matches exactly.

Local & private

Nothing is uploaded and no API key is needed. OCR and transcripts run on your machine, and a model downloads only when you ask for it.

Formerly pdf-reader-mcp. See Migration.

anymd is the free, local mode of the same crates that run Sylphx AI parse, the hosted document-parse service: the same crates, hosted and metered per page for callers that want no local runtime. See Local and hosted.

Quick start

bash

claude mcp add anymd -- npx -y @sylphx/anymd   # add it to your agent
npx -y @sylphx/anymd report.pdf > report.md     # or convert from the shell
npx -y @sylphx/anymd search "indemnification" contracts/

Other clients (Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, and more) are in Getting started.

Need proof, not just text?

anymd Pro lets your agent cite exact video frames and verify that a quote is on the page it claims. One-time pricing, works offline. The core stays free and MIT licensed.

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