Convert a Markdown file to PDF format using Pandoc. Arguments:

• inputPath (string, required): Path to the input Markdown file (relative to workspace)

• outputPath (string, optional): Path for the output PDF. Defaults to same name with .pdf extension

• title (string, optional): Document title for the PDF metadata

• toc (boolean, optional): Include a table of contents

• pageSize (enum, optional): Page size — 'A4' or 'Letter'. Defaults to 'A4'

• theme (enum, optional): Theme — 'default', 'github', or 'academic'. Currently informational

• pdfEngine (enum, optional): PDF engine — 'pdflatex', 'xelatex', 'lualatex', 'wkhtmltopdf', 'weasyprint', or 'typst'. Leave unset to let Pandoc choose

• cjkMainFont (string, optional): CJK main font used by xelatex for Chinese/Japanese/Korean PDF output. Example: 'Microsoft YaHei', 'SimSun', 'Noto Sans CJK SC'

• preserveSource (boolean, optional): When true, save the original Markdown as a sidecar file (e.g. sample.pdf.source.md) for accurate PDF-to-Markdown recovery. Defaults to false

• strictMarkdown (boolean, optional): If true, reject files with structural issues (unclosed code blocks). Defaults to false

• overwrite (boolean, optional): Allow overwriting existing output. Defaults to false

Convert a Markdown file to DOCX (Word) format using Pandoc. Arguments:

• inputPath (string, required): Path to the input Markdown file

• outputPath (string, optional): Output path. Defaults to same name with .docx

• referenceDocx (string, optional): Path to a reference DOCX template for styling

• toc (boolean, optional): Include a table of contents in the DOCX

• strictMarkdown (boolean, optional): If true, reject files with structural issues (unclosed code blocks). Defaults to false

• overwrite (boolean, optional): Allow overwriting. Defaults to false

Convert a DOCX file to Markdown format using Pandoc or MarkItDown. Arguments:

• inputPath (string, required): Path to the input DOCX file

• outputPath (string, optional): Output path. Defaults to same name with .md

• extractImages (boolean, optional): Extract embedded images. Defaults to false

• imageDir (string, optional): Directory to store extracted images

• engine (enum, optional): Conversion engine — 'pandoc' or 'markitdown'. Defaults to 'pandoc'

• markdownFlavor (enum, optional): Markdown dialect for Pandoc output — 'gfm', 'commonmark', or 'pandoc'. Defaults to 'gfm'

• cleanForLLM (boolean, optional): Clean up the Markdown for LLM consumption. Defaults to false

• overwrite (boolean, optional): Allow overwriting. Defaults to false

Extract text content from a PDF file into Markdown format.

IMPORTANT: This is CONTENT EXTRACTION, not layout reconstruction.

• Scanned PDFs, complex tables, two-column papers, and mathematical formulas may not convert reliably.

• For scanned PDFs, an OCR engine is required (not included).

• Default engine is MarkItDown (better text extraction). Falls back to Pandoc if unavailable.

Arguments:

• inputPath (string, required): Path to the input PDF file

• outputPath (string, optional): Output path. Defaults to same name with .md

• engine (enum, optional): Engine — 'markitdown' (default) or 'pandoc'

• cleanForLLM (boolean, optional): Clean up Markdown for LLM consumption

• preferSourceSidecar (boolean, optional): When true (default), first check for a source sidecar file (sample.pdf.source.md) and return it instead of extracting PDF text. This is the only reliable way to recover original Markdown structure.

• overwrite (boolean, optional): Allow overwriting. Defaults to false

Convert a Markdown file to HTML format using Pandoc. Arguments:

• inputPath (string, required): Path to the input Markdown file

• outputPath (string, optional): Output path. Defaults to same name with .html

• cssPath (string, optional): Path to a CSS stylesheet to embed

• standalone (boolean, optional): Generate a complete HTML document with head/body. Defaults to true

• strictMarkdown (boolean, optional): If true, reject files with structural issues (unclosed code blocks). Defaults to false

• overwrite (boolean, optional): Allow overwriting. Defaults to false

Convert all matching files in a directory from one format to another. Individual file failures do NOT abort the entire batch. Arguments:

• inputDir (string, required): Source directory (relative to workspace)

• outputDir (string, required): Destination directory (relative to workspace)

• from (enum, required): Source format — 'md', 'markdown', 'docx', or 'pdf'

• to (enum, required): Target format — 'md', 'markdown', 'docx', 'pdf', or 'html'

• recursive (boolean, optional): Traverse subdirectories. Defaults to false

• overwrite (boolean, optional): Overwrite existing files. Defaults to false

• cleanForLLM (boolean, optional): Clean Markdown output for LLM consumption