microsoft/markitdown

This page introduces an external open-source repository. It is not an HDATF product.

What it does

MarkItDown is a Python utility that converts files such as PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, audio, HTML and ZIP into Markdown for LLMs and text analysis, keeping structure like headings, lists, tables and links.

How it helps ATF

Worth comparing as a file intake step for Company Brain and LabChin, where company documents and searched sources need to become text an AI can read while headings and tables are kept.

License

MIT Permissive. Commercial use and changes are allowed if the copyright notice is kept.

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