name: file-converter description: Converts files between formats (e.g., PDF to text, image OCR, docx to pdf) using system tools available in bash (like pandoc, tesseract, ImageMagick, or pdf2text). allowed-tools: bash
File Converter Skill
Use this skill to convert a file from one format to another or extract content from files.
Workflow
- Identify the source file format and the target format.
- Determine which system tool is available and best suited for the conversion:
- For document conversion (Markdown, HTML, Word):
pandoc - For images (resize, format change):
convertormagick(ImageMagick) - For PDF text extraction:
pdftotext - For OCR on images:
tesseract
- For document conversion (Markdown, HTML, Word):
- Use the
bashtool to check if the required tool is installed (e.g.,which pandoc). If not, inform the user they need to install the dependency. - Execute the conversion command via
bash. - Verify the output file exists and has content, then notify the user.