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] 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