Convert PDF documents to Markdown using marker_single. Use when Claude needs to extract text content from PDFs while preserving LaTeX formulas, equations, and document structure. Ideal for academic papers and technical documents containing mathematical notation.
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Convert PDFs to Markdown while preserving LaTeX formulas and document structure. Uses the marker_single CLI from the marker-pdf package.
marker_single on PATH (pip install marker-pdf if missing)from scripts.marker_to_markdown import pdf_to_markdown
markdown_text = pdf_to_markdown("paper.pdf")
print(markdown_text)
pdf_to_markdown(pdf_path, *, timeout=600, cleanup=True) -> str
marker_single --output_format markdown --disable_image_extractioncleanup=True: use a temp directory and delete after reading the Markdowncleanup=False: keep outputs in <pdf_stem>_marker/ next to the PDFFileNotFoundError if the PDF is missing, RuntimeError for marker failures, TimeoutError if it exceeds the timeouttimeout for large PDFs; set cleanup=False to inspect intermediate files# Basic conversion (prints markdown to stdout)
python scripts/marker_to_markdown.py paper.pdf
# Keep temporary files
python scripts/marker_to_markdown.py paper.pdf --keep-temp
# Custom timeout
python scripts/marker_to_markdown.py paper.pdf --timeout 600
cleanup=True: outputs stored in a temporary directory and removed automaticallycleanup=False: outputs saved to <pdf_stem>_marker/; markdown lives at <pdf_stem>_marker/<pdf_stem>/<pdf_stem>.md when present (otherwise the first .md file is used)marker_single not found: install marker-pdf or ensure the CLI is on PATH--keep-temp/cleanup=False and check stdout/stderr saved in the output folder
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