A service that turns any website into clean Markdown or structured data for models. It can search, scrape, crawl a whole site and even click through a page.
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A small Microsoft utility that converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other files into Markdown that is easy to hand to a language model.
Who it is for
For Python developers who need a quick document converter before indexing.
How to start
- Install:
pip install 'markitdown[all]'. - Convert a file from the terminal:
markitdown path-to-file.pdf > document.md. - Don't need every format? Install only what you need:
pip install 'markitdown[pdf, docx, pptx]'.
Steps are taken from the README. Check the current version in the repository before running them.
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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
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