What problem does it solve?
This Skill turns complex documents into clean, LLM-friendly Markdown so you can read, search, and reuse their content without manual formatting work.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Multi-format conversion to Markdown: Convert PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, spreadsheets, HTML, JSON/XML, CSV, images, audio, ZIP archives, EPUBs, and even YouTube URLs into Markdown for downstream analysis.
- OCR and transcription support: Use OCR for scanned images/PDFs and transcription for audio inputs to produce usable text output.
- Optional AI-enhanced image understanding: Generate detailed image/figure descriptions (useful for scientific figures and slides) via an LLM provider (e.g., OpenRouter) to improve fidelity for visual content.
- Workflow-ready output: Produce Markdown that can be piped to files or processed in batch scripts for literature review pipelines and data extraction workflows.
Quick Start
Ask the AI to convert your file to Markdown by running: markitdown your_document.pdf -o output.md.