Firecrawl AnyDoc: 14 Document Formats to Markdown Fast

Firecrawl open-sourced AnyDoc on August 4, a pure Rust library that converts 14 document formats to GitHub-Flavored Markdown in a median of 4.7 milliseconds, with zero external dependencies and no API key required. The tool gained 11,900 GitHub stars in its first week, addressing a common pain point for developers building RAG pipelines who struggle with mixed document formats.

Firecrawl open-sourced AnyDoc on August 4, and developers noticed immediately: 11,900 GitHub stars in its first week. The library converts 14 document formats to clean GitHub-Flavored Markdown in a median of 4.7 milliseconds. Pure Rust. Zero external dependencies. No API key. If your AI pipeline has been choking on mixed document formats, this is the tool that makes that problem go away. Why Document Parsing Is Still Broken Every developer building a RAG pipeline eventually hits the same wall: users do not organize their documents to make your life easier. You get a Word doc, a scanned PDF, a PowerPoint … The post