markitdown-skill
✓Guide for using Microsoft MarkItDown - a Python utility for converting files to Markdown. Use when converting PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, YouTube URLs, EPubs, Jupyter notebooks, RSS feeds, or Wikipedia pages to Markdown format. Also use for document processing pipelines, LLM preprocessing, or text extraction tasks.
Installation
SKILL.md
Microsoft's Python utility for converting various file formats to Markdown for LLM and text analysis pipelines.
MarkItDown converts documents while preserving structure (headings, lists, tables, links). It's optimized for LLM consumption rather than human-readable output.
| Documents | PDF, Word (DOCX), PowerPoint (PPTX), Excel (XLSX, XLS) | | Media | Images (EXIF + OCR), Audio (WAV, MP3 transcription) | | Web | HTML, YouTube URLs, Wikipedia, RSS/Atom feeds | | Data | CSV, JSON, XML, Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb) | | Archives | ZIP (iterates contents), EPub | | Email | Outlook MSG files |
Guide for using Microsoft MarkItDown - a Python utility for converting files to Markdown. Use when converting PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, YouTube URLs, EPubs, Jupyter notebooks, RSS feeds, or Wikipedia pages to Markdown format. Also use for document processing pipelines, LLM preprocessing, or text extraction tasks. Source: julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill markitdown-skill- Category
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- 2026-02-01
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- 2026-02-18
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What is markitdown-skill?
Guide for using Microsoft MarkItDown - a Python utility for converting files to Markdown. Use when converting PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, YouTube URLs, EPubs, Jupyter notebooks, RSS feeds, or Wikipedia pages to Markdown format. Also use for document processing pipelines, LLM preprocessing, or text extraction tasks. Source: julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills.
How do I install markitdown-skill?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill markitdown-skill Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills
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- Source
- skills.sh
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- 2026-02-01