Microsoft Releases MarkItDown: Free Open-Source Tool Converts PDFs and Office Documents to AI-Ready Markdown
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Microsoft has open-sourced MarkItDown, a lightweight Python utility that converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and 12+ other document formats into clean, structured Markdown optimized for AI model consumption. Released in November 2024, the tool has rapidly gained traction, accumulating over 160,000 GitHub stars and reaching #1 on GitHub Trending in early 2025.
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