alterlab-markitdown
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Converts files and Office documents to clean, LLM-friendly Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown (markitdown CLI, Python API, and markitdown-mcp server), supporting PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX/XLS, images (EXIF metadata, LLM descriptions), audio (transcription), HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP archives, EPUB e-books, Outlook MSG, Jupyter notebooks, and YouTube transcript URLs, with OCR through the markitdown-ocr plugin or Azure Document Intelligence. Use when converting a document, PDF, slide deck, spreadsheet, scanned image, audio file, web page, or e-book into Markdown text for ingestion or LLM processing, extracting text from scans via OCR, transcribing audio, or batch-converting mixed file formats to token-efficient Markdown. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-markitdown -a claude-code
Installs to .claude/skills/alterlab-markitdown/ · Each command fetches the skill straight from GitHub with the open skills CLI.
Byte-identical to the scanned commit, with the repository’s licence and a SOURCE.txt.
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