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markitdown-skill
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By infometa/workbuddyskills (GitHub) · media · 427 stars · scanned at commit 0749999
Convert documents to Markdown using Microsoft's MarkItDown CLI (`markitdown`). Supports PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images (OCR), audio (transcription), HTML, YouTube, and URLs. Use when a user wants to convert a file or URL to Markdown, extract text from PDFs/images, transcribe audio/video, or batch-convert documents.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
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Downloads and installs other software
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- skills/markitdown-skill/SKILL.md, line 117
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr - skills/markitdown-skill/SKILL.md, line 120
brew install tesseract - skills/markitdown-skill/references/USAGE-GUIDE.md, line 121
print("Install with: pip install 'markitdown[pdf]'") - skills/markitdown-skill/references/USAGE-GUIDE.md, line 178
pip install 'markitdown[audio-transcription]' - skills/markitdown-skill/references/USAGE-GUIDE.md, line 185
pip install 'markitdown[youtube-transcription]' - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 141
- **Dependencies:** `pip install 'markitdown[pdf]'` - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 146
- **Dependencies:** `pip install 'markitdown[pptx]'` - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 150
- **Dependencies:** `pip install 'markitdown[docx]'` - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 155
- **Dependencies:** `pip install 'markitdown[xlsx]'` or `'markitdown[xls]'` - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 164
- **Dependencies:** `pip install 'markitdown[audio-transcription]'` - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 169
- **Dependencies:** `pip install 'markitdown[youtube-transcription]'` - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 215
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 218
brew install tesseract - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 285
print("Install with: pip install 'markitdown[pdf]'") - skills/markitdown-skill/references/reference.md, line 371
- Use `pip install 'markitdown[all]'` for backward compatibility - skills/markitdown-skill/scripts/batch_convert.py, line 90
print("Install with: pip install openai", file=sys.stderr)
Can call paid AI services billed to you
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Sends data to these websites: api.openai.com
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'markitdown-skill' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'markitdown-skill' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named markitdown-skill already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/infometa/workbuddyskills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '0749999031be0d5fa14cdc08afe9cefdf857cbfd' -- 'skills/markitdown-skill' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/markitdown-skill' ~/.agents/skills/'markitdown-skill' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'markitdown-skill' ~/.claude/skills/'markitdown-skill' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|
| 2026-11-09 | 0749999 | 65 |
| 2026-11-07 | 1e18d8c | 70 |