Markitdown

About

An open-source utility by Microsoft that extracts content from PDFs, Office docs, images, and HTML into clean Markdown.

Key Features

• Supports PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and HTML 📄
• Uses AI models to process image and file content 🤖
• Generates structured, readable Markdown output 📝

Pros

• Broad format compatibility ✅
• Excellent for RAG pipelines 🔍
• Lightweight and extensible ⚡

Cons

• Requires Python environment 🐍
• Visual formatting may vary by source file ⚠️