Read any document using the Canonizr pipeline. Supports PDFs, images, office files, and more.

Using Canonizr

You can pass documents to Canonizr via CLI.

canonizr convert document.pdf

The output of the above command is a direct markdown transcript.

Failed attempts to convert a file return an error message. Depending on context you may wish to store the output in an adjacent .md file to avoid re-processing.

Supported file formats include PDFs, images (which will be transcribed), and office files.

Debugging

You can check if the Canonizr pipeline is running by using the CLI:

canonizr health

If the pipeline is not running then your user may not have started it. If you have docker permissions then you can start the service with:

canonizr up

And stop it with:

canonizr down

You can get a full JSON response with metadata (instead of just markdown) using the --json flag:

canonizr convert --json document.pdf