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MarkItDown: convert docs to Markdown for LLMs

Our verdict

A tiny, practical utility. If you feed documents to models, converting them to Markdown first is a cheap quality win. Also available as an MCP server.

Who it's for
Anyone feeding documents into LLM workflows
Leverage
Clean inputs for better model outputs
Effort
Low
Date added

What it does

MarkItDown is Microsoft's Python tool for converting files and Office documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more) to Markdown.

How builders use it

  • Preprocess a folder of docs before indexing them.
  • Convert a spec deck to Markdown and hand it to a coding agent.
  • Use it inside automations that receive email attachments.

What to expect

Documents become text your agents can actually use.

Copy this: Command

pip install 'markitdown[all]'
markitdown spec.pdf -o spec.md
# then: "Read spec.md and produce a task list for implementing v1."

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