MarkItDown

The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)

It presently supports:

• PDF (.pdf)
• PowerPoint (.pptx)
• Word (.docx)
• Excel (.xlsx)
• Images (EXIF metadata, and OCR)
• Audio (EXIF metadata, and speech transcription)
• HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.)
• Various other text-based formats (csv, json, xml, etc.)
• ZIP (Iterates over contents and converts each file)

Installation

You can install markitdown using pip:

pip install markitdown

or from the source

pip install -e .

Usage

The API is simple:

from markitdown import MarkItDown

markitdown = MarkItDown()
result = markitdown.convert("test.xlsx")
print(result.text_content)

To use this as a command-line utility, install it and then run it like this:

markitdown path-to-file.pdf

This will output Markdown to standard output. You can save it like this:

markitdown path-to-file.pdf > document.md

You can pipe content to standard input by omitting the argument:

cat path-to-file.pdf | markitdown

You can also configure markitdown to use Large Language Models to describe images. To do so you must provide llm_client and llm_model parameters to MarkItDown object, according to your specific client.

from markitdown import MarkItDown
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()
md = MarkItDown(llm_client=client, llm_model="gpt-4o")
result = md.convert("example.jpg")
print(result.text_content)

You can also use the project as Docker Image:

docker build -t markitdown:latest .
docker run --rm -i markitdown:latest < ~/your-file.pdf > output.md

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Running Tests

To run tests, install hatch using pip or other methods as described here.

pip install hatch
hatch shell
hatch test

Running Pre-commit Checks

Please run the pre-commit checks before submitting a PR.

pre-commit run --all-files

Trademarks

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