markitdown

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• MarkItDown - File to Markdown Conversion
• Overview
• Visual Enhancement with Scientific Schematics
• Supported Formats
• Quick Start
• Installation
• Command-Line Usage
• Python API

MarkItDown is a Python tool developed by Microsoft for converting various file formats to Markdown. It's particularly useful for converting documents into LLM-friendly text format, as Markdown is token-efficient and well-understood by modern language models. Key Benefits: Convert documents to clean, structured Markdown Token-efficient format for LLM processing Supports 15+ file formats Optional AI-enhanced image descriptions OCR for images and scanned documents Speech transcription for audio files When creating documents with this skill, always consider adding scientific diagrams and schematics to enhance visual communication. If your document does not already contain schematics or diagrams: Use the scientific-schematics skill to generate AI-powered publication-quality diagrams Simply describe your desired diagram in natural language Nano Banana Pro will automatically generate, review, and refine the schematic For new documents: Scientific schematics should be generated by default to visually represent key concepts, workflows, architectures, or relationships described in the text. How to generate schematics: The AI will automatically: Create publication-quality images with proper f

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