Skillsbench marker

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.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/tasks/latex-formula-extraction/environment/skills/marker" ~/.claude/skills/benchflow-ai-skillsbench-marker && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: tasks/latex-formula-extraction/environment/skills/marker/SKILL.md

source content

Marker PDF-to-Markdown Converter

Convert PDFs to Markdown while preserving LaTeX formulas and document structure. Uses the

marker_single

CLI from the marker-pdf package.

Dependencies

```
marker_single
```
on PATH (
```
pip install marker-pdf
```
if missing)
Python 3.10+ (available in the task image)

Quick Start

from scripts.marker_to_markdown import pdf_to_markdown

markdown_text = pdf_to_markdown("paper.pdf")
print(markdown_text)

Python API

pdf_to_markdown(pdf_path, *, timeout=600, cleanup=True) -> str

Runs

marker_single --output_format markdown --disable_image_extraction

```
cleanup=True
```
: use a temp directory and delete after reading the Markdown
```
cleanup=False
```
: keep outputs in
```
<pdf_stem>_marker/
```
next to the PDF
Exceptions:
```
FileNotFoundError
```
if the PDF is missing,
```
RuntimeError
```
for marker failures,
```
TimeoutError
```
if it exceeds the timeout

Tips: bump
```
timeout
```
for large PDFs; set
```
cleanup=False
```
to inspect intermediate files

Command-Line Usage

# 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

Output Locations

```
cleanup=True
```
: outputs stored in a temporary directory and removed automatically
```
cleanup=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)

Troubleshooting

```
marker_single
```
not found: install
```
marker-pdf
```
or ensure the CLI is on PATH
No Markdown output: re-run with
```
--keep-temp
```
/
```
cleanup=False
```
and check
```
stdout
```
/
```
stderr
```
saved in the output folder