Open source alternatives to markitdown
24 open source AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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github-ops
Launchgithub-ops is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It manages a GitHub repository with a focus on community health, CI reliability and the experience of contributors. It covers triaging issues by classify
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opensource-pipeline
Launchopensource-pipeline is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It prepares a private project for safe public release through a three-stage pipeline. The fork stage strips secrets from a copy. The sanitise st
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andrej-karpathy-skills
Launchandrej-karpathy-skills is a single CLAUDE.md file from the multica-ai project that is meant to improve how Claude Code behaves on coding tasks. It is derived from Andrej Karpathy's public observations about LLM coding pitfalls. The file dis
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microsoft/markitdown
Launchmarkitdown-mcp is the MCP server package for MarkItDown, Microsoft's tool for converting many file formats to Markdown for language models. It is a lightweight server that runs over stdio, Streamable HTTP or SSE, and exposes one tool, conve
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od-contribute
Launchod-contribute is an agent skill in the OpenDesign project that provides a guided, one-click contribution flow to the OpenDesign repository, written so that people without a coding background can send a real pull request. It is locked to the
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github-deep-research
Launchgithub-deep-research is an agent skill from the DeerFlow project that researches a single GitHub repository in several rounds and writes a report in Markdown. It is for requests that need more than a README summary, such as a comprehensive
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About markitdown

markitdown
Convert files and office documents to Markdown
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.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- davila7
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/markitdown











