Word, PDF and slides to Markdown for Claude

Steps

1. Press “Connect” beside Documents on Exporter’s home, then “Choose Documents Folder”, and choose the folder your documents are in; subfolders are included.
2. Choose where the Markdown goes and press “Use This Folder”. For a separate folder beside your other exports, like ~/Documents/converted, press “Change…” beside “Saves To” on the card.
3. Keep “Markdown” ticked on the format row and press “Sync Now”. Scanned PDF pages are read by Apple’s text recognition on your Mac.
4. On the MCP Server card press “Start”, then connect Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http exporter http://localhost:8744/mcp

5. Ask Claude to list and read the documents: “Summarize the contracts in Work.”

What you get

~/Documents/converted/
  Work/
    Quarterly report.md
    Pitch deck.md

The same folder shape as your documents, each file with a short front matter (title, source, format, pages, scanned, modified), and converted again when the document changes. search ranks Apple Notes, Contacts and Messages, so Claude reaches documents with list, get_recent and read.

Pitfalls

• The export folder cannot be the documents folder or a folder inside it, and the documents folder cannot sit inside the export folder: the app does not let you pick either.
• Pages, Numbers and Keynote files are not read: export them to Word, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF first.
• On the free allowance your 10 most recently modified documents convert. A red triangle on a row gives the reason one failed.

The file types and fields are in the Documents docs, the tools in the MCP server docs.