Document Converter (MarkItDown)

Convert Office and structured documents to Markdown for LLM consumption using Microsoft MarkItDown.

Overview

MarkItDown is a Microsoft open-source tool that converts a wide range of document formats into clean Markdown text. This is essential for academic research workflows where source materials arrive in diverse formats (PDFs from journals, PPTX from conferences, DOCX from collaborators, XLSX data tables).

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