"markitdown.tech is a free, browser-based file-to-Markdown conversion tool built on Microsoft's open-source MarkItDown library (110,000+ GitHub stars). Upload any document and get clean, structured Markdown output in seconds — no installation, no account required.
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Supported formats:
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