Why Convert Docs to Markdown for LLMs? Meet the Open‑Source MarkItDown Tool
The article explains that LLMs process Markdown more effectively than raw PDFs, introduces Microsoft’s open‑source MarkItDown utility that converts a wide range of file types—including PDFs, Word, Excel, HTML, images with OCR, and YouTube videos—into clean Markdown, and provides installation, usage examples, recent feature updates, and a brief critique of its scope.
