Document to Text Converter

Overview

This skill acts as a universal converter to extract plain text and structured data from various binary and complex file formats. It enables Gemini to "read" files that are otherwise inaccessible.

Capabilities

1. Document Extraction

• PDF (.pdf): Extracts plain text.
• Excel (.xlsx): Converts sheets to CSV and performs OCR on embedded images.
• Word (.docx): Extracts text and performs OCR on embedded images.
• PowerPoint (.pptx): Extracts slide text and performs OCR on embedded images.

2. Image OCR

• Images (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .webp): Uses Tesseract.js to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and extract text from images. Supports English and Japanese.

3. Data & Archives

• Email (.eml): Parses headers (From, To, Subject) and body text.
• ZIP Archive (.zip): Lists files and extracts content of text-based files within the archive without extracting to disk.

Usage

To read a file, execute the extract.cjs script with the file path.

node scripts/extract.cjs <path/to/file>

Example:
User: "What does the error screenshot say?"
Action: node scripts/extract.cjs error.png

Dependencies

This skill requires Node.js packages.
Run npm install in the skill directory before using.

Knowledge Protocol

• This skill adheres to the knowledge/orchestration/knowledge-protocol.md. It automatically integrates Public, Confidential (Company/Client), and Personal knowledge tiers, prioritizing the most specific secrets while ensuring no leaks to public outputs.