PDF Convert

Convert to/from other formats (pdf-convert)

Convert to/from other formats

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Management. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Move content in and out of PDF with clearly documented fidelity limits.

Operations

• PDF->TXT
• PDF->Markdown
• PDF->HTML
• PDF->JSON
• PDF->Images
• PDF->CSV/XLSX (tables)
• PDF->DOCX (when pandoc present)
• TXT/MD/HTML/Images->PDF

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.convert:convert_pdf (and core.create for creation direction)

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: text/tables/render engines
• Fallback: pandoc for DOCX (documented limitation)

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

output exists; renderable; sanity

Related skills

pdf-create, pdf-export, pdf-tables, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Turn this PDF into Markdown."
• "Convert these images into a PDF."

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.