markitdown
Convert local documents to Markdown using Microsoft's markitdown CLI. Best for: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images (OCR), audio. Can fetch URLs but Jina is faster for web. Triggers on: convert to markdown, read PDF, parse document, extract text from, docx, xlsx, pptx, OCR image, local file.
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Evaluation results
77%
59%Quarterly Data Markdown Report
Local document conversion via CLI
markitdown for PDF
0%
0%
markitdown for Excel
0%
100%
markitdown for Word
0%
100%
CLI usage (Bash)
0%
100%
Stdout redirect to file
0%
100%
PDF output file present
0%
0%
Excel output file present
100%
100%
Word output file present
100%
100%
No pip library imports for docs
0%
77%
pip install markitdown
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Without context: $0.4641 · 1m 52s · 27 turns · 28 in / 7,063 out tokens
With context: $0.5375 · 2m 6s · 33 turns · 36 in / 5,324 out tokens
100%
49%Competitive Research Digest
Tool routing: Jina for URLs vs markitdown for local files
Jina for URL
0%
100%
markitdown for local HTML
0%
100%
markitdown CLI usage
0%
100%
No markitdown on URL
100%
100%
No requests/BeautifulSoup for URL
70%
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Local file output saved
100%
100%
URL content retrieved
100%
100%
Combined report produced
100%
100%
pip install markitdown
0%
100%
No curl/wget fallback for local
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Without context: $0.5731 · 2m · 27 turns · 32 in / 8,739 out tokens
With context: $0.5924 · 1m 54s · 32 turns · 37 in / 6,848 out tokens
73%
37%Scanned Receipt Data Extraction
OCR image text extraction
markitdown for OCR
0%
66%
No Tesseract/pytesseract
0%
100%
CLI usage (Bash)
0%
0%
Output saved to file
70%
60%
Correct image file passed
70%
100%
pip install markitdown
0%
37%
Extracted text present
100%
100%
No OpenCV preprocessing
100%
100%
Script or log of commands
37%
100%
Without context: $0.3395 · 1m 17s · 24 turns · 26 in / 4,148 out tokens
With context: $1.2074 · 4m 40s · 52 turns · 91 in / 13,701 out tokens
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