Supported File Formats

Comprehensive overview of all file formats that MarkItDown can convert to Markdown

MarkItDown supports a wide range of file formats, converting them to clean, structured Markdown. Each converter is designed to preserve important content while producing readable output.

Format Categories

Office Documents

Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook files

PDF Documents

PDF files with table extraction and text processing

Images

JPEG and PNG with EXIF metadata and OCR

Audio Files

Audio files with metadata and speech transcription

Web Content

HTML, RSS, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Bing SERP

Other Formats

CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, EPUB, and Jupyter notebooks

All Supported Formats

Office Documents

Format	Extension	Dependencies
Word	.docx	mammoth
PowerPoint	.pptx	python-pptx
Excel (modern)	.xlsx	pandas, openpyxl
Excel (legacy)	.xls	pandas, xlrd
Outlook	.msg	olefile

Documents

Format	Extension	Dependencies
PDF	.pdf	pdfminer.six, pdfplumber
EPUB	.epub	Built-in
Jupyter Notebook	.ipynb	Built-in

Media

Format	Extension	Dependencies
JPEG Images	.jpg, .jpeg	exiftool (optional)
PNG Images	.png	exiftool (optional)
Audio (WAV)	.wav	speech_recognition, pydub
Audio (MP3)	.mp3	speech_recognition, pydub
Audio (M4A)	.m4a	speech_recognition, pydub
Video (MP4)	.mp4	speech_recognition, pydub

Web & Data

Format	Extension	Dependencies
HTML	.html, .htm	beautifulsoup4
RSS/Atom	.rss, .atom, .xml	beautifulsoup4, defusedxml
CSV	.csv	Built-in
JSON	.json, .jsonl	Built-in
Plain Text	.txt, .md	Built-in
ZIP Archives	.zip	Built-in

Web Services

Service	URL Pattern	Dependencies
Wikipedia	*.wikipedia.org	beautifulsoup4
YouTube	youtube.com/watch?v=*	beautifulsoup4, youtube-transcript-api
Bing Search	bing.com/search?q=*	beautifulsoup4

Feature Matrix

Format Category	Text Extraction	Table Support	Metadata	Images	Advanced Features
Office Documents	✓	✓	✓	✓	Charts, slide notes
PDF	✓	✓	✗	✗	Form detection
Images	✗	✗	✓	✓	EXIF, LLM captioning, OCR
Audio	✗	✗	✓	✗	Speech transcription
Web Content	✓	✓	✓	✗	Feed parsing
Data Formats	✓	✓	✓	✗	Structure preservation

Installation by Format

Install dependencies for specific format categories:

Office Documents

pip install markitdown[office]
# Includes: mammoth, python-pptx, pandas, openpyxl, xlrd, olefile

Next Steps

Quick Start

Get started with basic conversion

Python API

Learn the programmatic interface