Converting DOCX and PDF to Markdown with MarkItDown
MarkItDown is a free Microsoft tool that converts documents such as DOCX and PDF into Markdown. It is useful for pulling existing documents into anything that works with plain text - static sites, note systems, or LLM pipelines. Install it inside a Python virtual environment to keep its dependencies isolated. Create the environment and activate it: cd ~/code virtualenv -p python3 markitdown cd ~/code/markitdown source bin/activate Install the package with pip. The [all] extra pulls in the optional dependencies for every supported format: ...