MarkItDown
API Tool
Free
MarkItDown is a lightweight Microsoft Python utility that converts PDFs, Office files, images, audio, HTML, text formats, ZIPs, YouTube URLs, EPUBs and more into Markdown for LLM and text-analysis pipelines.
Key features
- Converts PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, EPUB, images, audio, and YouTube URLs to Markdown
- Preserves document structure such as headings, lists, tables, and links for LLM-friendly processing
- Provides CLI, Python API, Docker usage, and optional format-specific dependencies
- Supports plugins and OCR/image-description workflows through LLM-compatible clients
- Integrates with Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Content Understanding for higher-quality extraction
Pros
- Open-source and installable with pip
- Useful for preparing documents for LLM context and RAG pipelines
- Supports many common document and media formats
Cons
- Not intended for high-fidelity human-facing document conversion
- Untrusted inputs need careful sanitization because conversion can access local files or network resources
- Azure-based extraction options can incur billable API costs
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