MarkItDown: An AI-Boosting Tool Tested on Apple Containers
Introduction As everyone, we are evolving and we are including AI into several workflows, so it’s essential having a way to pass data to the AI from various types of files. This is where Microsoft’s MarkItDown comes in as a powerful tool. It’s a lightweight Python utility that converts numerous file formats into Markdown, a format easily consumable by AI models. Whether you want to use it with an AI assistant like Claude through its MCP server, as a CLI tool, with Python code, or run it in a container, MarkItDown offers a lot of flexibility. ...