MarkItDown - File to Markdown Conversion
Microsoft's Python tool for converting various file formats to Markdown - LLM-friendly, token-efficient format.
Key Benefits
- Convert documents to clean, structured Markdown
- Token-efficient format for LLM processing
- Supports 15+ file formats
- Optional AI-enhanced image descriptions
- OCR for images and scanned documents
- Speech transcription for audio files
Supported Formats
PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images (with OCR), audio (with transcription), HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, YouTube URLs, EPubs, and more.
Use Cases
- Converting research papers to Markdown
- Extracting text from scanned documents
- Processing presentation slides
- Transcribing audio recordings
- Preparing documents for LLM analysis
Source: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown License: MIT
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