Software Development
AlterLab MarkItDown
Converts files and Office documents to clean, LLM-friendly Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown (markitdown CLI, Python API, and markitdown-mcp server), supporting PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX/XLS, images (EXIF metadata, LLM descriptions), audio (transcription), HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP archives, EPUB e-books, Outlook MSG, Jupyter notebooks, and YouTube transcript URLs, with OCR through the markitdown-ocr plugin or Azure Document Intelligence. Use when converting a document, PDF, slide deck, spreadsheet, scanned image, audio file, web page, or e-book into Markdown text for ingestion or LLM processing, extracting text from scans via OCR, transcribing audio, or batch-converting mixed file formats to token-efficient Markdown. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
- Publisher / source
- AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (found on the CSV list)
- Upstream record
- AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills
- Version
- Version 2
- Published
- Publication review
- Approved for publication
- Content fingerprint
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