# Everything markitdown.ai does with your documents

> Convert PDFs, Office files, images, and web content into clean Markdown for LLMs, RAG pipelines, agents, and developer workflows — with history, batch, an API, and a transparent roadmap.

## Structure-aware Markdown

Output designed for downstream tools — ChatGPT, Claude, RAG chunking, docs, and automation: headings and hierarchy, tables and lists, a Markdown preview, and a raw source mode.

## Your formats, covered

- PDFs — reports, papers, manuals, and contracts.
- Office — Word documents, PowerPoint decks, and Excel spreadsheets.
- Images and scans — screenshots, scanned pages, and image-based documents.
- Web and structured files — HTML, URLs, and other common formats.

## From one file to many

Once you convert regularly, an account adds saved history, a paired library, batch conversion, usage and credits, and downloadable Markdown artifacts.

## Convert inside your pipeline

The web app is for manual work; the API is for everything that should run automatically — submit a document, get Markdown back, and feed it into RAG, a CMS, support bots, or agents.

## Ready for the next layer

Markdown is the base artifact. Schema JSON extraction, Markdown translation, and summaries/citations are planned layers listed as roadmap, not shipped features.

## Plans that grow with you

Free to try; paid plans add higher credits, more files, batch, API access, larger documents, and longer history. See the pricing page for current numbers.

## FAQ

### What makes the output AI-ready?

Conversion preserves headings, lists, tables, and reading order where possible, so the Markdown is predictable enough to chunk, embed, and retrieve without manual cleanup.

### Which file types can I convert?

Common document formats including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images and scans, and web content. The free public converter accepts files up to 10 MB.

### Can I use it for RAG or agent workflows?

Yes. Clean Markdown is meant to be the input layer before chunking and embedding, and the API lets you run conversion inside ingestion jobs and agent pipelines.

### What is the difference between the web app and the API?

The web app is for uploading, previewing, saving, and batching documents by hand. The API is for running the same conversion automatically inside your own product or tools.

### Can I batch convert documents?

Yes. Batch conversion is available on paid plans so you can process repeated files without uploading and downloading one at a time.

### Do you support scanned documents?

Image-based and scanned files are supported through the parsing pipeline. Higher-accuracy OCR is on the roadmap as an enhancement layer.

### Will schema JSON extraction be supported?

It is a planned next layer, not a current feature. Markdown is the base artifact we build on first.

### Will Markdown translation be supported?

Structure-preserving translation is on the roadmap as a planned next layer.

### Is this a document editor or a PDF layout tool?

Neither. markitdown.ai converts documents into clean Markdown for AI and text workflows; it is not a visual PDF or layout editor.