MarkItDown - File to Markdown Conversion Overview MarkItDown is a Python tool developed by Microsoft for converting various file formats to Markdown. It's particularly useful for converting documents into LLM-friendly text format, as Markdown is token-efficient and well-understood by modern language models. Key Benefits : - Convert documents to clean, structured Markdown - Token-efficient format for LLM processing - Supports 15+ file formats - Optional AI-enhanced image descriptions - OCR for images and scanned documents - Speech transcription for audio files Visual Enhancement with Scientifi…