Description
markitdown is an agent skill from the davila7 claude-code-templates collection, listed on skills.sh. It wraps MarkItDown, a Python tool developed by Microsoft that converts files and office documents into Markdown. It supports PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML and ZIP files, along with images, which can be read with OCR, and audio, which can be transcribed. The skill explains why Markdown suits language models: the format is token-efficient, and it keeps the structure of a document in clean text. The conversion can also add AI-generated descriptions for images when that option is turned on. The skill lists more than 15 supported formats and calls out OCR for scanned documents and speech transcription for audio. It is for anyone who wants to feed a document to an AI model, or to store it as searchable text, and who would rather not pass binary office files around. The skill also reminds the agent to consider scientific diagrams when it writes documents with it.…
Highlights
- Office files, PDFs and images to Markdown
- OCR for images and scanned pages
- Audio transcription
- Optional AI image descriptions
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markitdown FAQ
What does the markitdown skill do?
It converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, image, audio, HTML and other files into Markdown text.
How do I install it?
Run: npx skills add https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates --skill markitdown
Why Markdown?
The skill says Markdown is token-efficient and well understood by language models, which makes it a good format for AI work.
Can it read scanned documents?
Yes. Images and scanned documents are handled with OCR.
Has it been checked for security?
skills.sh lists three audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass and Snyk Pass.
What are the best markitdown alternatives?
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