#markitdown

Based on public materials from markitdown.store and Microsoft's open-source markitdown repository...

Microsoft's markitdown converts PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, and HTML to clean Markdown for LLM context and RAG pipelines. 2026 guide with sandbox benchmarks.

Three open-source PDF-to-Markdown tools for RAG and LLM pipelines, tested on real documents. Speed, table fidelity, install pain, and which one to pick.

markitdown by Microsoft converts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, images, audio, and HTML into clean markdown for LLM context. One CLI command, 95k stars. Supports OCR via LLM and audio transcription.