MarkItDown Online is a hosted document-to-Markdown converter that turns files, webpages, tables, and API sources into clean Markdown for review, RAG, search, and LLM workflows. It is an independent hosted product layer built around the public MarkItDown workflow, with the open-source Python package remaining the source of truth.
Key Features
- Accepts uploads, pasted text, public URLs, and data URIs as input
- Converts PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint decks, spreadsheets, CSV, JSON, XML, HTML pages, images, audio files, ZIP archives, and EPub sources
- Optional OCR, image description, and audio transcription extras routed through a controlled worker
- Conversion runs in an isolated MarkItDown worker rather than a browser-only manifest, with worker isolation for untrusted files
- Returns Markdown with headings, lists, tables, links, warnings, and source notes that a reviewer can audit before trusting it
- Available as an online workspace, a Python package (
pip install 'markitdown[all]'), a CLI, an API, and Docker paths
Workflow
- Capture the source via upload, pasted text, URL, data URI, or API request while recording source metadata
- Run the narrow converter using a local stream, local file, fetched response, or sandboxed worker
- Review the Markdown output, then copy or download it
- Feed the result into RAG indexes, text analysis jobs, agent context windows, or review queues
Who It's For
Teams that need source material to become readable text before it enters a search index, RAG pipeline, issue thread, support knowledge base, or model context window. It is positioned as a document-to-context converter, not a pixel-perfect layout preservation tool.