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Document Conversion Guides & Tutorials

1 in-depth document conversion article on setup, real workflows, and production patterns — written for builders shipping with AI.

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MarkItDown: PDF to Markdown for RAG Pipelines [2026 Guide]

MarkItDown is Microsoft's open-source Python library that converts PDFs, Word docs, Excel, PowerPoint, and 12+ formats to clean Markdown for LLM pipelines. 139K GitHub stars, 82% F1 accuracy, zero GPU required. Full setup guide with benchmarks.

Jason ZhouJune 2, 20269 min read

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