Microsoft releases MarkItDown - utility for LLM pipelines
https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
TL;DR: Converts PDFs, Office docs, HTML, CSV/JSON/XML, EPUB, ZIP, and more into structured Markdown.
Why it matters:
• Markdown is more LLM-friendly than raw extracted text
• Preserves structure (headings, lists, tables, links)
• Great for RAG ingestion and document search pipelines
• One tool for many formats, less parser chaos
Plain text wins in the LLM era — again.
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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
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