MarkItDown: convert files to Markdown for LLM pipelines, README overview
The README presents MarkItDown as a converter from many document formats to Markdown for LLM pipelines.
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Source: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
What it supplies: The README presents MarkItDown as a converter from many document formats to Markdown for LLM pipelines.
Useful for: - Turn PDFs, Office files, HTML and EPubs into Markdown text.
- Prepare documents for LLM and text analysis pipelines.
First action: - Create a virtual environment on Python 3.10 or later.
- Run pip install markitdown[all], or install only the extras you need.
Prerequisites and limits: Python 3.10 through 3.14, in a virtual environment.
- It accesses anything the process can access, so sanitize untrusted inputs.
- Image captioning and speech transcription depend on web-hosted services.
The README text read states no licence, so check the repository licence file. Captioning and transcription use web-hosted services with their own terms.
Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening, supported formats, requirements and installation README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.
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