AI Briefingmarkitdown: Convert PDF, PPT, and Video to Markdown for LLMs
microsoft/markitdown
About the project
Convert files in various formats such as PDF, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel into Markdown that is easy for LLMs to understand. The focus is on preserving as much structural information from the document as possible, including headings, lists, tables, and links, going beyond simple text extraction.
The scope of support is broad, covering EXIF metadata and OCR for images, speech transcription for audio, YouTube URLs, and EPub. By integrating Azure Content Understanding, you can process video analysis and structured field extraction, such as invoice amounts, in the cloud.
LLMs naturally understand Markdown and offer high token efficiency, making it useful for preparing input data in RAG pipelines. Unlike the existing textract, it maintains document structure in its output, making it suitable for passing documents with complex layouts to AI agents or analysis tools.
microsoft/markitdown
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
Python
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