Python MarkItDown: Convert Documents Into LLM-Ready Markdown

The MarkItDown library lets you quickly turn PDFs, Office files, images, HTML, audio, and URLs into LLM-ready Markdown. In this tutorial, you’ll compare MarkItDown with Pandoc, run it from the command line, use it in Python code, and integrate conversions into AI-powered workflows.

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that:

• You can install MarkItDown with pip using the [all] specifier to pull in optional dependencies.
• The CLI’s results can be saved to a file using the -o or --output command-line option followed by a target path.
• The .convert() method reads the input document and converts it to Markdown text.
• You can connect MarkItDown’s MCP server to clients like Claude Desktop to expose on-demand conversions to chats.
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