Markitdown - Convert files and MS Office documents to Markdown
· 5 min read
Recently a good friend has notified me about a new tool from Microsoft: an utility for converting PDF and MS Office files (like .docx or .xlsx) to Markdown.
By looking at the repo on Github (https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/), it seems really interesting since, they said, "it converts pdf, PowerPoint, word, excel, images, audio, html, text-based formats like csv, json or xml and even zip file (iterates over contents)". It's a lovely promise!
So, because it's always good to be able to quickly convert some docx files written by colleagues who don't speak Markdown, I was really interested to test it.