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    Preparing documents for AI

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    Markdown conversion
    AI OCR
    Table recovery

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    MarkItDown

    freemium • Free
    Updated Oct 2026

    MarkItDown is an online converter that turns PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, CSV, JSON, EPUB, URLs and images into clean, AI-ready Markdown. Choose private in-browser processing or faster server conversion, with AI OCR for scanned PDFs, table recovery and LaTeX math. No account is needed to start. Worth weighing: complex layouts may still need light cleanup. For preparing documents for AI tools, it's a handy utility.

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    • Many input formats
    • Private in-browser option
    • OCR, tables and LaTeX

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    • Complex layouts may need cleanup
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