Parse
Parse documents into clean Markdown
Upload a PDF, Office file, image, or web page and get structured, AI-ready Markdown — headings, tables, lists, and reading order preserved, not a flattened text dump.
- Structure-aware output for LLMs, RAG, and agents
- Preview the rendered Markdown before you copy or download
- Server-side parsing pipeline — not fragile browser copy-paste
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Structure that survives conversion
The goal is not just to extract text once, but to produce Markdown that downstream tools — ChatGPT, Claude, RAG chunking, and automation — can rely on.
Headings and hierarchy
Section structure stays intact, so the document reads as an outline instead of one undifferentiated block of text.
Tables and lists
Rows, columns, and bullet structure are preserved as Markdown rather than flattened into loose prose.
Reading order
Multi-column pages, headers, and footnotes are resolved into the order a person actually reads.
Preview and source mode
Review the rendered Markdown, then switch to source when you need clean input for a pipeline.
Your formats, covered
markitdown.ai parses common document formats. Looking for a specific one? The per-format converters cover PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, HTML, and URLs.
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 URLs
HTML files and public web pages by URL.
How parsing works
One file, three steps. Longer documents are processed asynchronously, so a large PDF does not block the page.
Upload a file or paste a URL
Drop a document in the browser, or point the converter at a public web page.
The pipeline parses structure
Parsing runs server-side, so large or complex documents are handled the same way every time.
Preview, copy, download, or save
Read the result first, then copy it, download the Markdown, or save it to your library.
Parsed Markdown vs copy-paste
Copy-paste from a PDF interleaves columns, flattens tables, and drops headings; ad-hoc extraction leaves page numbers and broken hyphenation. A parsing pipeline reconstructs reading order and structure so the Markdown stays consistent across thousands of documents instead of failing on the messy ones.
Need conversion in your own code or in bulk? Use the developer API or batch conversion.
Common questions
What makes the output AI-ready?
Parsing 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 parse?
Common document formats including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images and scans, and web content. The free public converter accepts files up to 10 MB.
Do you support scanned documents?
Image-based and scanned files go through the same parsing pipeline. Higher-accuracy OCR is on the roadmap as an enhancement layer.
How is Parse different from Batch and the API?
Parse is the single-document experience in the browser. Batch runs many files at once, and the API runs the same conversion from your own code. They all share one parsing engine.
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.
Turn a document into Markdown
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