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MarkItDown

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

MarkItDown is a utility for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc). It supports:

• PDF
• PowerPoint
• Word
• Excel
• Images (EXIF metadata and OCR)
• Audio (EXIF metadata and speech transcription)
• HTML
• Text-based formats (CSV, JSON, XML)
• ZIP files (iterates over contents)

To install MarkItDown, use pip: pip install markitdown. Alternatively, you can install it from the source: pip install -e .

markitdown path-to-file.pdf > document.md

markitdown 273424552.pdf > 273424552.md

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error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Scripts\m
arkitdown.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
            ~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-
packages\markitdown\__main__.py", line 43, in main
    print(result.text_content)
    ~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character '\xa0' in position 7: ill
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