MarkItDown
Utility for converting various file formats to Markdown text.
Files, images and media PyPI MIT OCR and document parsing Word, Excel, slides and ebooks
How MarkItDown is used
MarkItDown is a dependency in 9 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 49 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (77.6%), Requests (61.2%), Pydantic (61.2%).
MarkItDown popularity over time
Gid Score 69: downloads 76, use in agent projects 40, GitHub stars 99, downloads trend 51 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with MarkItDown
| python-dotenv | 77.6% of MarkItDown projects · 8.5× more than average |
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| Requests | 61.2% of MarkItDown projects · 9.0× more than average |
| Pydantic | 61.2% of MarkItDown projects · 7.1× more than average |
| NumPy | 59.2% of MarkItDown projects · 10.1× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 59.2% of MarkItDown projects · 15.0× more than average |
| FastAPI | 57.1% of MarkItDown projects · 7.6× more than average |
| Beautiful Soup | 53.1% of MarkItDown projects · 24.6× more than average |
| python-multipart | 53.1% of MarkItDown projects · 17.7× more than average |
From all 49 projects in our scan that use MarkItDown, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list MarkItDown as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install markitdown |
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| Main stacks | Python (49) |
| Example projects | zcaceres/markdownify-mcp, VRSEN/OpenSwarm, JasonHonKL/spy-search, camel-ai/seta, OpenDataBox/MemoryData |
Alternatives to MarkItDown
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Files, images and media does the same job as MarkItDown: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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