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markitdown

Convert files and Office documents into clean Markdown when you need LLM-friendly, token-efficient text (e.g., for summarization, search, RAG ingestion, or dataset preparation).

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> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)

## When to Use

- Converting research papers or reports (PDF/DOCX/EPUB/HTML) into Markdown for LLM summarization, Q&A, or RAG indexing.
- Extracting tables and structured content from spreadsheets (XLSX/CSV) into Markdown for analysis or documentation.
- Turning slide decks (PPTX) into Markdown notes, including speaker notes and (optionally) AI-generated image descriptions.
- Processing images or scanned documents with OCR to obtain searchable, editable Markdown text.
- Transcribing audio (WAV/MP3) or pulling YouTube transcripts into Markdown for meeting notes, content analysis, or knowledge bases.

## Key Features

- Converts many formats to structured Markdown (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, EPUB, YouTube URLs, etc.).
- Produces token-efficient output suitable for LLM pipelines (summarization, chunking, embedding).
- OCR support for images/scans (when OCR dependencies are installed).