What problem does it solve?
Markitdown automates converting diverse content—PDFs, Word docs, HTML pages, images (with OCR/EXIF), audio transcripts, ZIP archives, RSS feeds, YouTube transcripts, and more—into readable Markdown, eliminating tedious manual extraction and reformatting for AI workflows.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automates cross-format content conversion (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, EPUB, HTML, ZIP, images, audio, YouTube transcripts, RSS feeds) into clean Markdown suitable for reading, summarization, and analysis.
- Supports both local files and URLs with intelligent fallbacks to web_fetch when parsing is noisy or non-textual.
- Preserves structure, references, and key metadata to enable reliable downstream tasks like research, reporting, and knowledge capture.
Quick Start
Convert a local file or URL to Markdown using markitdown.