Convert Any File to Clean Markdown for AI
Drop in a PDF, Word doc, spreadsheet, or slide deck and get clean, structured Markdown in seconds, ready to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI tool, or to feed straight into your RAG pipeline.
- Free, no sign-up
- Ready in seconds
- Built for AI & RAG
- 12 file types
From document to Markdown in three steps
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Add your file
Drop in a PDF, Word doc, spreadsheet, slide deck, or notebook. Or click to browse.
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Get clean Markdown
Structured Markdown appears in seconds, with your headings, lists, and tables preserved.
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Use it anywhere
Copy or download, then paste straight into ChatGPT, Claude, any AI tool, your docs, or a RAG pipeline.
Markdown is the format AI reads best
Large language models read clean plain text best. PDFs and web pages bury your content in layout markup the model still has to process and pay for. EasyMarkItDown strips that away and hands you structured Markdown you can feed straight to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or a vector database, with no manual cleanup in between.
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Structure survives
Headings, lists, and tables come through intact, instead of collapsing into one flat blob of text the model has to untangle.
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Fewer tokens, lower cost
Markdown sheds the layout overhead PDFs and HTML make a model read, so the same content runs about 30 to 40 percent cheaper.
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RAG-ready
Clean sections chunk predictably for vector databases and knowledge bases, so embeddings stay tighter and retrieval comes back accurate.
Every format MarkItDown converts
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PDF to Markdown
Text-layer PDFs. Scanned / image-only PDFs have no text to extract.
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Word (DOCX) to Markdown
Headings, lists and tables from Word documents.
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Excel (XLSX) to Markdown
Spreadsheets become Markdown tables.
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PowerPoint (PPTX) to Markdown
Slide text and structure.
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HTML to Markdown
Clean Markdown from web markup.
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CSV to Markdown
Rows become a Markdown table.
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EPUB to Markdown
E-book text and structure.
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Excel 97-2003 (XLS) to Markdown
Legacy .xls workbooks become Markdown tables.
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URL to Markdown
Fetch any web page and convert it.
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JSON to Markdown
JSON content rendered as readable Markdown.
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XML to Markdown
XML documents converted to Markdown text.
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Jupyter Notebook (IPYNB) to Markdown
Notebook cells and code as Markdown.
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free?
Yes. EasyMarkItDown is completely free, with no account, no sign-up, and no usage limits. Convert as many files as you like.
What is MarkItDown?
MarkItDown is an open-source library, originally released by Microsoft, that converts documents like PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint into Markdown optimized for large language models. EasyMarkItDown runs that engine in your browser.
Why does Markdown use fewer tokens than PDF?
PDFs and HTML carry structure a model can’t use: font tables, layout coordinates, and markup tags that all still get tokenized and billed. Markdown encodes the same headings, lists, and tables as compact plain text, so the same document costs noticeably fewer tokens to send to an AI, often 30 to 40 percent less than text pulled straight from a PDF. Fewer tokens means lower cost and more room in the context window.
Which AI tools does the Markdown work with?
All of them. The output is plain Markdown, so it pastes cleanly into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, or Perplexity, and drops straight into RAG pipelines, vector databases, and knowledge bases.
What is RAG, and why does Markdown help?
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) feeds your own documents to an AI so it can answer from them. Clean Markdown chunks predictably along its headings and sections, which makes for better embeddings and more accurate retrieval than messy PDF or HTML text.
Are my files uploaded anywhere?
No. Conversion runs entirely in your browser, so your files stay on your device and their contents are never sent to a server.
Do I need to install Python or anything?
No. The MarkItDown library normally runs in Python, but here it runs in your browser through WebAssembly, so there is nothing to install and nothing to set up.
How is this different from running MarkItDown locally?
It is the same engine without the setup. For quick, one-off conversions this is faster; for scripting large batches, the local Python library or a tool like Pandoc may suit you better.
Why did my scanned PDF come out empty?
The converter reads a PDF’s text layer. Scanned or image-only PDFs contain no selectable text and there is no OCR, so they produce no Markdown.
Is EasyMarkItDown affiliated with Microsoft?
No. EasyMarkItDown is an independent tool that uses the open-source MarkItDown library. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Microsoft.