File Converter Skill

SkillFiles & storage

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).

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the File Converter Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by next-open-ai/openclawx in presets/workspaces/file-assistant/skills/file-converter/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this skill to convert a file from one format to another or extract content from files.

Workflow

  1. Identify the source file format and the target format.
  2. Determine which system tool is available and best suited for the conversion:
    • For document conversion (Markdown, HTML, Word): pandoc
    • For images (resize, format change): convert or magick (ImageMagick)
    • For PDF text extraction: pdftotext
    • For OCR on images: tesseract
  3. Use the bash tool to check if the required tool is installed (e.g., which pandoc). If not, inform the user they need to install the dependency.
  4. Execute the conversion command via bash.
  5. Verify the output file exists and has content, then notify the user.

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Jun 2026
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skill
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file-converter-next-open-ai
Source
github.com/next-open-ai/openclawx