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About markitdown.ai
markitdown.ai turns documents into clean, AI-ready Markdown — so the text you feed an LLM, a RAG index, or an agent is structured and predictable, not a flattened dump.
What we do
We convert PDFs, Office files, images, and web content into Markdown that keeps the structure downstream tools depend on: headings, tables, lists, and reading order. The same parsing engine powers a free browser converter, batch conversion, and a developer API.
Why it exists
A document that looks perfect to a human often falls apart the moment a model reads it: columns merge, tables collapse, reading order breaks. That broken text quietly degrades everything downstream — retrieval surfaces the wrong passage, prompts fill with noise, answers drift. We built markitdown.ai to fix the input layer once, so the rest of an AI workflow has a clean foundation to build on.
What we focus on
One thing, done well: document → Markdown. We're deliberately narrow. Higher-accuracy OCR, structured (JSON) extraction, and translation are on the roadmap as layers on top of clean Markdown — described honestly as planned, not shipped, until they are.
Who it's for
AI & RAG teams
Convert source documents into clean Markdown before chunking, embedding, and retrieval — so pipelines behave the same across thousands of files.
Researchers & analysts
Turn papers, reports, and slide decks into editable, searchable text without retyping tables or losing reading order.
Operations teams
Process contracts, policies, and invoices into reusable Markdown instead of manual copy-paste cleanup.
Developers
Wire conversion into ingestion jobs, internal tools, and agents through a simple HTTP API.
How it works
In the browser
Drop a file and see clean Markdown in seconds — free, no sign-up required.
In bulk
Queue many files at once and let them convert in the background, with per-file status.
Via API
Convert documents from your own code and feed Markdown into your systems.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or partnership ideas? Email support@markitdown.ai.