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microsoft/markitdown A tool that works on your files

Turn a Word document, PowerPoint presentation or Excel workbook into Markdown

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 4 Nov 2026

You bring

  • a DOCX, PPTX or XLSX file

You get

  • the document as Markdown
What can it reach?

Only the files you give it, with no network.

How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

microsoft/markitdown on GitHub

Licence. MIT

The 6 recipe files

Recipe revision 5cef6d848526, from 7482c092d9c0.

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