markitdown

markitdown (Microsoft) converts office documents, PDFs, and HTML into Markdown optimized for LLM consumption. It is a lightweight doc-intake primitive. Useful beside Docling/Unstructured/MinerU when you need simple, scriptable conversion into LLM-ready text for RAG or agent context. Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. [!IMPORTANT] 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.