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The MarkItDown library is a handy tool that converts different types of files into Markdown format, which is useful for tasks like indexing and text analysis.
Currently, it can convert the following file types:
- PDF (.pdf)
- PowerPoint (.pptx)
- Word (.docx)
- Excel (.xlsx)
- Images (EXIF metadata and OCR)
- Audio (EXIF metadata and speech transcription)
- HTML (with special handling for Wikipedia and others)
- Other text formats (csv, json, xml, etc.)
The API is straightforward:
from markitdown import MarkItDown
markitdown = MarkItDown()
result = markitdown.convert("test.xlsx")
print(result.text_content)
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