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# MarkItDown - File to Markdown Conversion > Adapted from the MarkItDown skill in K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills (MIT). See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. ## Overview MarkItDown is a Python tool developed by Microsoft for converting various file formats to Markdown. It's particularly useful for converting documents into LLM-friendly text format, as Markdown is token-efficient and well-understood by modern language models. **Key Benefits**: - Convert documents to clean, structured Markdown - Token-efficient format for LLM processing - Supports 15+ file formats - Optional AI-enhanced image descriptions - Scanned-document text via Azure Document Intelligence (a remote service); markitdown itself runs no local OCR - Speech transcription for audio files ## Supported Formats | Format | Description | Notes | |-------------|--------------------------|------------------------------------------| | **PDF** | Portable Document Format | Full text extraction | | **DOCX** | Microsoft Word | Tables, formatting preserved | | **PPTX** | PowerPoint | Slides with notes | | **XLSX** | Excel spreadsheets | Tables and data | | **Images** | JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP | EXIF metadata + optional LLM description | | **Audio** | WAV, MP3 | Metadata + transcription | | **HTML** | Web pages