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markitdown

GitHub Repo Pretty sure · Microsoft shipping boring competence
https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

Microsoft's sensible document-to-Markdown converter that does one job without pretending it's AGI. Pluggable, actually works, doesn't require 47 dependencies by default.

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MarkItDown is a straightforward file converter that solves a real LLM pipeline problem: getting non-text data into a format models can consume. No novel algorithms here (science: low), minimal marketing overhead (slop: low). The signal is in the execution: broad format support (PDF, Office, images, audio, HTML, EPUB, ZIP), optional dependencies that don't bloat the base install, CLI + Python API, plugin architecture, and honest documentation about trade-offs ("not the best option for high-fid...

102302 stars Python 2026-03-30 514 days old

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