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MarkItDownv0.1.9

Microsoft tool converting office documents to Markdown for LLMs.

Open source Maintained Dual-use For agents

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MarkItDown is microsoft tool converting office documents to Markdown for LLMs.

Good for: Developers who want their agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor…) to read docs & web pages.

01How to start

  1. 1Read the official README for requirements and permissions.
  2. 2Install it from the official package registry: pip install markitdown
  3. 3Add it to your agent’s MCP config — Claude Code: claude mcp add; Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json; Codex: ~/.codex/config.toml.

PyPI: markitdown

02Alternatives & comparison

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crawl4ai Open-source web crawler and scraper for LLMs and AI agents: any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Run it yourself, or use Crawl4AI Cloud with one key. ★ 86k MinerU Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows. ★ 82k docling Get your documents ready for gen AI ★ 69k pandoc Universal markup converter ★ 47k PyMuPDF PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents. ★ 11k

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