Open CLI
Curated task stack

Best CLIs for Documents.

Convert, lint, OCR, and publish documents without losing structure. This is a ready-to-share stack with install commands, verification checks, agent packs, and guardrails.

process PDFs →convert Markdown →OCR scanned docs →
Primary CLI
Pandoc

pandoc is a strong fit for documents. Pandoc responds and can convert documents.

Agent pack
pandoc fits documents well, especially for document conversion, markdown, and publishing from the terminal.
39,721 homebrew installs (30d).
Easy to automate.
Stack

Install, verify, then work.

1. Convert documents
Pandoc

39.7K homebrew installs (30d)

Pack
Install
brew install pandoc
Verify
pandoc --version
2. OCR scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF

Curated OpenCLI pick

Pack
Install
brew install ocrmypdf
Verify
ocrmypdf --version
3. Extract PDF text
Poppler Utils

Curated OpenCLI pick

Pack
Install
brew install poppler
Verify
pdftotext -v
4. Check writing
Vale

Curated OpenCLI pick

Pack
Install
brew install vale
Verify
vale --version
Agent loop

Document processing loop

  1. 1Inspect file types and choose conversion or extraction tools.
  2. 2Run a sample conversion or lint check.
  3. 3Process the full set and report warnings, skipped files, and outputs.
  4. 4Ask before overwriting source documents.
Safety

Guardrails

  • • Output is mostly plain text.
  • • Ask before destructive, paid, deploy, send, merge, publish, or secret-exposing actions.