MarkItDown

At a glance

Input

Office files, PDF, HTML

Output

Markdown

Provenance

No default region coordinates

Scanned pages

Requires additional OCR where needed

Deployment

Self-hosted

Availability

Open source

Costs to plan for

Compute or optional model costs

Limitations to check

The output emphasizes content rather than page reproduction. Image-only PDFs need an appropriate recognition path.

Build a meaningful sample

Include your hardest pages: low-quality scans, missing fields, dense tables, and evidence split across pages. Validate output correctness separately from citation accuracy.