MarkItDown
Microsoft utility for converting Office docs, PDFs, images, audio, and more to Markdown — designed for LLM-friendly text extraction.
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⭐ 136,093 stars⬇ 1.6M downloads/wkFirst release: Nov 2024Last release: May 2026
Async Support: NoPlugin Extensions: HighSpeed: FastDoc Quality: HighLearning Curve: Easy
Pros
- • Huge format coverage (Office, PDF, images, audio, HTML, ZIP) behind a single API
- • Microsoft-backed with active development and a simple, consistent convert() interface
- • LLM-friendly Markdown output makes it a drop-in preprocessor for RAG pipelines
Cons
- • Relies on external converters internally; quality varies by source format
- • OCR and LLM-powered features depend on optional extras that must be installed separately
- • Output fidelity for complex layouts (tables, equations) lags specialized parsers