Convert images to text with an LLM: Markitdown workflow tip #5
mdancho84 · x · 2026-10-01
Data scientist Matt Dancho shares tip #5 in his document-to-Markdown series: images can be converted too by calling the OpenAI API to have an LLM produce a text description, folding them into the same conversion pipeline built on Microsoft's open-source Markitdown library.
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