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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

23 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 3 stories, 20 comments · first 2024-12-13 · latest 2026-07-02

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  1. …sure Gemma 4 could even create a GUI to make this process very simple for a non technical user. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
    comment by evdubs · 2026-07-02 · in Meta caps internal AI token spending
  2. Related: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
    comment by currycurry16 · 2026-06-29 · in Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown
  3. …for any documents that can't natively be read by a given AI to first be converted into .md using https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown which I've found to work really well
    comment by lostsock · 2026-06-25 · in Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
  4. Native support: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/onedriveblog/introd... Microsoft OSS python: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown There seem to be many addons that enable this, and pandoc as others have suggested
    comment by verdverm · 2026-06-21 · in Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
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    Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
    story by mooreds · 2026-06-11 · 0 comments
  6. https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
    comment by mrw34 · 2026-03-08 · in LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown
  7. …reduced. I invoke it through a docker container. But this might be a misplaced sense of safety. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
    comment by nebezb · 2026-01-24 · in How I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf]
  8. No shade, but it that essentially (or literally) a monetized UI for https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown - if yes respect . If no then also respect for making something
    comment by papaplitty · 2025-10-20 · in Show HN: MarkdownConverters – Convert any file format to clean Markdown
  9. …I couldn't find any reference to the library on the website, so it may be useful to know about. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown [2] https://tomd.io/#supported-extensions [3] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/tree/main/pack…
    comment by fooofw · 2025-10-10 · in To MD - Convert PDFs, Word, HTML and more to Markdown
  10. …mammoth to convert docx to HTML[0], then uses markdownify to convert the HTML into Markdown[1]. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/da7bcea527ed04c... [1] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/da7bcea527ed04c...
    comment by favorited · 2025-07-18 · in LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats
  11. I wonder if this tool by MSFT is able to handle that: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown I was amazed when I realised that Word docs were just zip files and you could poke around in the xml files embedded inside of them. I almost…
    comment by paulbjensen · 2025-07-18 · in LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats
  12. …Thank you for pointing me to the MarkItDown library [1]. I had no idea such a thing existed. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
    comment by selcuka · 2025-06-05 · in Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
  13. How it compares to https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown ?
    comment by TiredOfLife · 2025-05-06 · in Transform DOCX into LLM-ready data
  14. …that has a text editor. It's simple, non-proprietary, and future proof. This repo says it all: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
    comment by RS-232 · 2025-05-01 · in Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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    Microsoft Markitdown jumped on the MCP bandwagon
    story by rlucia · 2025-04-22 · 0 comments
  16. …on the page but is it using [0] in the background? Edit -> It's a Go program so I guess not. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
    comment by teekert · 2025-02-14 · in Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
  17. The source of it: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
    comment by sts153 · 2024-12-23
  18. How does https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown compare to pandoc? Ah, now I see it's all in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markit... – beautifulsoup for htmlish stuff, pdfminer for pdf's, docx via mammoth. (And…
    comment by internet_points · 2024-12-21 · in Show HN:Free Online Tool to Experience Microsoft's MarkItdown
  19. …for docx (Word) [1][2] Python-pptx for ppt (PowerPoint) [3][4] and Pandas for XSLX (Excel) [5] [1] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/70ab149ff1657c3... [2] https://pypi.org/project/mammoth/ [3]…
    comment by wis · 2024-12-14 · in MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
  20. …pool smaller can hardly improve the output. [here] https://github.com/Konfekt/vim-office [source] htps://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
    comment by konfekt · 2024-12-14 · in MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
  21. …it's entirely a wrapper around https://pdfminersix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/highle... - https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markit... So if that's your use case, PDFMiner might be better to integrate with…
    comment by btown · 2024-12-13 · in MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
  22. …But it does indeed say what the README says it does. Here is the special handling for Wikipedia : https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markit... Edit: good to see the one from yesterday flagged. I tried to assume good…
    comment by benatkin · 2024-12-13 · in MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
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    MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
    story by Handy-Man · 2024-12-13 · 81 comments