Enable universal file access for your AI coding agent with MarkItDown-MCP

While some LLMs can read certain file formats like PDFs directly, all LLMs excel at processing Markdown. This makes Markdown the ideal format for feeding documents and information to AI coding agents. By configuring your agent with the markitdown-mcp server, you give it the ability to convert virtually any file format into clean, LLM-friendly Markdown.

Why This Matters

Your AI coding agent can now read documentation that's only available in PDF, Word, EPUB, or PowerPoint formats, extract data for analysis from Excel, CSV, JSON, and XML files, process images and audio, and access web content.

Supported Formats

The markitdown tool supports an extensive range of formats:

• Documents: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, EPUB

• Data: Excel, CSV, JSON, XML

• Media: Images (with EXIF metadata and OCR), Audio (with transcription)

• Web: HTML, YouTube URLs

• Archives: ZIP files

• Other text-based formats and more…

Quick Setup

Add this configuration to your MCP settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "markitdown": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [ "markitdown-mcp" ]
    }
  }
}

(this example uses the uv package manager for Python)

With this simple configuration, your AI coding agent gains the ability to understand and process information from virtually any file format — all converted to efficient, readable Markdown that maximizes the LLM's comprehension and performance.