Readoc

Operations work lives in Word documents, Excel sheets, and PDFs — formats AI agents can’t natively open from the command line. Readoc gives agents three CLIs: readoc to extract the contents of a .docx, .xlsx, or PDF as structured text, readir to explore and search whole folders of mixed documents, and editdoc to make targeted edits to Office files without mangling their formatting.

The practical effect: an agent can be pointed at a shared drive full of policies, budgets, and reports and actually work with them, instead of being limited to plain text and code.

I built it for my own operations work, where “can the agent read the document” was the recurring blocker between AI assistance and the tasks that actually fill an ops person’s week.