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Markitdown

  • 2 repo stars
  • Updated July 11, 2026
  • musingfox/cc-plugins

Convert PDFs, Office docs, images, and audio into clean Markdown so agents and writers can ingest or repurpose document content.

About

markitdown wraps Microsoft's MarkItDown to convert PDFs, Office documents, images, audio, and more into Markdown. It gives Claude Code a one-command path to turn arbitrary files into clean, structured text. This is handy for documentation pipelines and for feeding source content into agent or RAG workflows.

  • Wraps Microsoft MarkItDown
  • Handles PDF, Office, images, audio
  • Outputs clean Markdown
  • Useful for RAG/agent ingestion

Markitdown by the numbers

  • Data as of Jul 12, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
/plugin marketplace add musingfox/cc-plugins
/plugin install markitdown@nick-personal-marketplace

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repo stars2
Last updatedJuly 11, 2026
Repositorymusingfox/cc-plugins

What it does

Convert PDFs, Office docs, images, and audio into clean Markdown so agents and writers can ingest or repurpose document content.

README.md

markitdown

A Claude Code plugin for converting non-plain-text files to Markdown using Microsoft's MarkItDown.

Features

  • Auto-triggered reading: Seamlessly read PDF, Office documents, images, audio, and more — just reference the file naturally
  • Explicit conversion: Use /convert to save files as Markdown

Supported Formats

Category Extensions
Documents .pdf, .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .xls
Web .html, .htm
Images .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .tiff, .webp
Audio .mp3, .wav, .m4a, .ogg, .flac
Data .csv, .json, .xml
Other .epub, .zip

Prerequisites

Install markitdown:

# Recommended (isolated install)
uv tool install 'markitdown[all]'

# Alternative
pip install 'markitdown[all]'

Usage

Natural Language (Skill)

Just ask Claude to read or analyze a supported file:

  • "Read this PDF and summarize it"
  • "What's in report.docx?"
  • "Analyze the data in spreadsheet.xlsx"

Command

/convert report.pdf

Converts report.pdfreport.md in the same directory.

Installation

/plugin install markitdown

Related skills

Office & Documentsworkflownotes

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