From 6ebef5af0cc672619c4127a7d1019dbce174c603 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Willison <swillison@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:06:11 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] CLI usage instructions

Plus added  a PyPI badge
---
 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5034d03..6b62356 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # MarkItDown
 
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/markitdown.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/markitdown/)
+
 The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)
 
 It presently supports:
@@ -23,6 +25,16 @@ result = markitdown.convert("test.xlsx")
 print(result.text_content)
 ```
 
+To use this as a command-line utility, install it and then run it like this:
+
+```bash
+markitdown path-to-file.pdf
+```
+This will output Markdown to standard output. You can save it like this:
+```bash
+markitdown path-to-file.pdf > document.md
+```
+
 ## Contributing
 
 This project welcomes contributions and suggestions.  Most contributions require you to agree to a

From 33ce17954dea8a0a127d96817b6d1dac8e50fb9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Willison <swillison@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:09:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Note about piping

---
 README.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6b62356..851611e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ This will output Markdown to standard output. You can save it like this:
 ```bash
 markitdown path-to-file.pdf > document.md
 ```
+You can pipe content to standard input by omitting the argument:
+```bash
+cat path-to-file.pdf | markitdown
+```
 
 ## Contributing