MarkItDown: Microsoft Document Intelligent Conversion Tool to convert various files to Markdown format

General Introduction

MarkItDown is a Python tool developed by Microsoft designed to convert various files and office documents into Markdown format. The tool supports a wide range of file types including PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images (EXIF metadata and OCR), audio (EXIF metadata and voice transcription), HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.), as well as other text formats (e.g. CSV, JSON, XML, etc.).MarkItDown's API is designed to be simple, users can easily convert the contents of the file to Markdown text, convenient for indexing, text analysis and other operations.

Function List

• Support multiple file formats conversion: PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, image, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML and so on.
• Easy-to-use API: file conversion is possible with simple code.
• Supports EXIF metadata and OCR processing: metadata extraction and optical character recognition for images and audio files.
• Special handling of HTML files: Includes handling of special HTML files such as Wikipedia.
• Open source projects: Community contributions and suggestions are welcome, following the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.

Using Help

Installation process

1. Ensure that the Python environment is installed (Python 3.6 and above is recommended).
2. Install the MarkItDown library using pip:

   pip install markitdown

Usage

1. Import the MarkItDown library:

   from markitdown import MarkItDown

2. Creates a MarkItDown object:

   markitdown = MarkItDown()

3. Convert the file:

   result = markitdown.convert("test.xlsx")
print(result.text_content)

Detailed function operation flow

Convert PDF files

1. Prepare the path of the PDF file to be converted.
2. utilizationconvertmethod to perform the conversion:

   result = markitdown.convert("example.pdf")
print(result.text_content)

Convert Word documents

1. Prepare the path to the Word document to be converted.
2. utilizationconvertmethod to perform the conversion:

   result = markitdown.convert("example.docx")
print(result.text_content)

Processing image files

1. Prepare the path to the image file to be processed.
2. utilizationconvertmethod for EXIF metadata extraction and OCR processing:

   result = markitdown.convert("example.jpg")
print(result.text_content)

Processing audio files

1. Prepare the path to the audio file to be processed.
2. utilizationconvertmethod for EXIF metadata extraction and speech transcription:

   result = markitdown.convert("example.mp3")
print(result.text_content)

Special handling of HTML files

1. Prepare the path to the pending HTML file.
2. utilizationconvertmethod to perform the conversion:

   result = markitdown.convert("example.html")
print(result.text_content)

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