markitdown.ai

markitdown.ai Introduction

A Markdown converter for documents and public web pages: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images and HTML become text you can inspect, reuse and pass to an AI workflow. markitdown.ai is a hosted service that converts documents, web pages, and images into clean Markdown for AI and text workflows. It is a web app, a batch converter, and a developer API built on one conversion engine. It exists because a document that looks perfect to a person often falls apart when a model reads it: columns merge, tables collapse into loose numbers, and headings turn into plain text. That broken text quietly degrades retrieval, prompts, and answers. markitdown.ai fixes the input layer once, so the Markdown you store keeps the structure people read — headings, lists, tables, links, and reading order. Markdown is the interchange format. We turn documents into Markdown, and turn Markdown back into HTML and plain text through the API and the browser tools, with a printable PDF in the browser.