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  "id": "markitdown",
  "name": "MarkItDown",
  "category": "tools",
  "summary": "Microsoft's lightweight Python utility for converting PDF, Office, images, audio, HTML and more into structure-preserving Markdown for LLMs.",
  "description": "Also ships a `markitdown-mcp` package. It performs I/O with the privileges of the current process, so sanitize inputs in untrusted environments.",
  "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown",
  "repo": "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown",
  "tags": [
    "markdown",
    "extraction",
    "python",
    "mcp",
    "microsoft"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "pricing": "open-source",
  "status": "active",
  "related": [
    "docling",
    "firecrawl-api"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown",
    "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/tree/main/packages/markitdown-mcp"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-17",
  "updated": "2026-10-17",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-17",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Microsoft",
  "longform": [
    {
      "type": "guide",
      "id": "convert-documents-to-markdown-for-agents",
      "title": "Convert documents to Markdown for agents with MarkItDown and Docling",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/guides/convert-documents-to-markdown-for-agents/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/guides/convert-documents-to-markdown-for-agents.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "stack",
      "id": "data-analysis-agent",
      "title": "Data analysis agent stack",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/stacks/data-analysis-agent/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/stacks/data-analysis-agent.json"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/markitdown/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/markitdown.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/markitdown.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/tools/markitdown.json"
  }
}