Microsoft launches Markitdown, a free Python library converting any document to Markdown
mdancho84 · x · 2026-10-01
Microsoft has released Markitdown, a free open-source Python library that converts any document — PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more — into Markdown. Data scientist Matt Dancho walks through how it works and where it fits in LLM data pipelines in a thread.
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