microsoft/markitdown
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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
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MarkItDown performs I/O with the privileges of the current process. Like open() or requests.get(), it will access resources that the process itself can access. Sanitize your inputs in untrusted environments, and call the narrowest convert function needed for your use case (e.g., convertstream(), or convertlocal()). See the Security Considerations section of the documentation for more information.
MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines. To this end, it is most comparable to textract, but with a focus on preserving important document structure and content as Markdown (including: headings,…
Excerpted from github.com/microsoft/markitdown
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| Stars | 182.7k | 2026-09-12 |
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| Forks | 13.4k | 2026-09-12 |
| Commits | 400 | 2026-09-12 |
| Releases | 21 | 2026-09-12 |
| Watchers | 578 | 2026-09-12 |
| Open issues | 316 | 2026-09-12 |
| Open PRs | 318 | 2026-09-12 |