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MarkItDown
Microsoft's open-source Python tool that converts PDFs and Office files to Markdown for LLM use.
- Microsoft
- Local only
- Free, open source
Where it ranks
- –Documents & OCRParsers & APIs · Local · no rated model available here yet
Ranked by its own benchmark result where it has one; otherwise by the best model it offers.
Facts
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Approach
- Parsers & APIs
- Where it runs
- Runs only on your own hardware
- Interface
- Command line, API
- Skill level
- Advanced: command line, node graphs or self-hosting
- Price
- Free, open source
- Pricing notes
- Open source.
- Source code
- Open source (MIT)
- GitHub stars
- 191k (19 Oct 2026)
- Last verified
- 19 Oct 2026
Price from github.com, 19 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
No models recorded yet.
Its own benchmark results
| Benchmark | Result | Entry on the leaderboard | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ParseBench (parsing products and libraries) | 18.6% | MarkItDownOverall (mean of tables, charts, content faithfulness, semantic formatting, visual grounding) from leaderboard.csv in the ParseBench repo (last leaderboard commit 2026-10-09). | 9 Oct 2026 | github.com |