v0.1.0a5

What's Changed

• Consider anything with a charset as plain text-convertible. by @afourney in #1142
• Adjust warning filters and update dependencies by @afourney in #1143

Full Changelog: v0.1.0a4...v0.1.0a5

v0.1.0a4

Features

• Basic EPub support from @0xRaduan, in collaboration with @afourney
• Switch from puremagic to magika. by @afourney in #1108
• Added CLI options for extension, mime-types, and charset. by @afourney in #1115
• Sort pptx shapes to be parsed in top-to-bottom, left-to-right order by @richardye101 in #1104

Bug fixes and enhancements

• fix(README): correct pip install command formatting by @Piero24 in #1090
• Fixed deepcopy failure when passing llm_client by @scalabreseGD in #1089
• feat(docker): improve dockerfile build by @syaghoubi00 in #220
• Fix exiftool in well-known paths. by @afourney in #1106
• fix typo in well-known path list by @0xmohit in #1109
• Minimize guesses when guesses are compatible. by @afourney in #1114
• Fix string formatting in FileConversionException error message by @yushihang in #1121
• Refactored tests. by @afourney in #1120
• Handle not supported plot type in pptx by @EmanueleMeazzo in #1122
• Fix remaining mypy errors. by @afourney in #1132
• Investigate and silence warnings. by @afourney in #1133

New Contributors

• @0xRaduan made their first contribution in #123
• @Piero24 made their first contribution in #1090
• @scalabreseGD made their first contribution in #1089
• @richardye101 made their first contribution in #1104
• @syaghoubi00 made their first contribution in #220
• @0xmohit made their first contribution in #1109
• @yushihang made their first contribution in #1121
• @EmanueleMeazzo made their first contribution in #1122

Full Changelog: v0.1.0a1...v0.1.0a4

v0.0.2

What's Changed

• Avoids resetting warning filters (addresses #1068) by @afourney in #1101
• Removes deprecated features from 0.0.1aX (pre-release alphas) by @afourney in #1105

Full Changelog: v0.0.1...v0.0.2

v0.1.0a1

What's Changed

This MarkItDown alpha introduces numerous bug-fixes, and the following major changes:

• Dependencies are now organized into optional feature-groups (further details below). Use pip install markitdown[all] to have backward-compatible behavior.
• The DocumentConverter class interface has changed to read from file-like streams rather than file paths. No temporary files are created anymore. If you are the maintainer of a DocumentConverter, you likely need to update your code. Otherwise, if only using the MarkItDown class or CLI, you should not need to change anything.
• MarkItDown now supports extension through 3rd-party plugins. See markitdown-sample-plugin for more details!

v0.0.1

Promoting v0.0.1a5 to a full release.

For more details see the prior Release Notes.

v0.0.1a5

What's Changed

• Fixed compatibility with markdownify v1.0.0

New Contributors

• @lh0x00 made their first contribution in #1072

Full Changelog: v0.0.1a4...v0.0.1a5

MarkItDown version v0.0.1a4

Some of What's Changed

• feat: Add RSSConverter by @Soulter in #97
• feat: Add IpynbConverter by @AumGupta in #71
• feat(devcontainer): Add DevContainer Configuration for Easier Contribution Setup by @l-lumin in #64
• feat: add support for conversion via Document Intelligence by @KennyZhang1 in #303
• feat: add version option to markitdown CLI by @l-lumin in #172
• feat: enable Git support in devcontainer by @numekudi in #136
• feat: outlook ".msg" file converter by @muratcankurtulus in #196
• feat: Add xls support by @yeungadrian in #169
• feat: support image description with LLM for pptx files by @masquare in #306
• fix: Safeguard against path traversal for ZipConverter by @finchy in #129
• fix: support -o param to avoid encoding issues by @Soulter in #116
• fix(transcription): TRANSCRIPTION_CAPABLE should be iniztialized by @absadiki in #194
• fix: added a test for leading spaces. by @afourney in #258
• fix: If puremagic has no guesses, try again after ltrim. by @afourney in #260
• fix: Recognize json as plain text (if no other handlers are present). by @afourney in #261
• fix: Set exiftool path explicitly. by @afourney in #267
• fix: remove leading and trailing \n for HtmlConverter by @ZeyuTeng96 in #262
• fix: argparse CLI option ordering, fixes #268 by @slhck in #290
• fix: for mimetype issue with csv files on windows. by @wunde005 in #273
• docs: update README.md by @eltociear in #182
• docs: Add documentation for docintel by @KennyZhang1 in #312

New Contributors

• @AumGupta made their first contribution in #71
• @diya155 made their first contribution in #80
• @l-lumin made their first contribution in #64
• @waterimp made their first contribution in #98
• @finchy made their first contribution in #129
• @sugatoray made their first contribution in #130
• @PetrAPConsulting made their first contribution in #91
• @SigireddyBalasai made their first contribution in #93
• @dependabot made their first contribution in #177
• @numekudi made their first contribution in #136
• @eltociear made their first contribution in #182
• @absadiki made their first contribution in #194
• @muratcankurtulus made their first contribution in #196
• @yeungadrian made their first contribution in #169
• @KennyZhang1 made their first contribution in #303
• @ZeyuTeng96 made their first contribution in #262
• @jamesmh made their first contribution in #270
• @masquare made their first contribution in #306
• @slhck made their first contribution in #290
• @wunde005 made their first contribution in #273

Full Changelog: v0.0.1a3...v0.0.1a4

v0.0.1a3

New Features and Formats

• Add zip handling by @Josh-XT in #22
• Add PPTX chart support by @nyosegawa in #33

Breaking Changes

Renamed mlm_client and mlm_model arguments to llm_client and llm_model, and added appropriate deprecation warnings.

See:

• Fix LLM terminology in code by @CharlesCNorton in #73
• Fix LLM terms by @CharlesCNorton in #72
• Added deprecation warnings for mlm_* arguments. by @afourney in #101

Bug fixes and enhancements

• Remove invalid classifiers by @simonw in #10
• Add installation instructions from haesleinhuepf:patch-1 by @gagb in #27
• Update README.md by @gagb in #28
• Improve the readme with contributing guidelines by @gagb in #7
• Add installation instructions by @haesleinhuepf in #24
• Update README.md by @pawarbi in #26
• Update README.md by @gagb in #29
• CLI usage instructions by @simonw in #11
• Fix character decoding issues with text-like files by @brc-dd in #19
• Catching pydub's warning of ffmpeg or avconv missing by @SH4DOW4RE in #39
• Exclude test files from language statistics using linguist-vendored by @Y-Kim-64 in #44
• Support specifying YouTube transcript language by @narumiruna in #50
• Add passing style_map kwarg to Mammoth when converting docx to allow keeping comments by @VillePuuska in #38
• Fix: pass the kwargs to _convert method when converting an url file by @Soulter in #48
• Added Dockerfile by @madduci in #60
• fix issue #65 by @DIMAX99 in #67
• Cybernobie/main by @gagb in #75
• Ensure hatch is installed before running tests by @cybernobie in #63
• Kevinclb/main by @gagb in #77
• feature: add argument parsing for cli tool capability by @kevinclb in #46
• Added llm tests to the local test set. by @afourney in #100

New Contributors

• @simonw made their first contribution in #10
• @gagb made their first contribution in #27
• @haesleinhuepf made their first contribution in #24
• @pawarbi made their first contribution in #26
• @brc-dd made their first contribution in #19
• @Josh-XT made their first contribution in #22
• @nyosegawa made their first contribution in #33
• @VillePuuska made their first contribution in #38
• @SH4DOW4RE made their first contribution in #39
• @Y-Kim-64 made their first contribution in #44
• @Soulter made their first contribution in #48
• @narumiruna made their first contribution in #50
• @madduci made their first contribution in #60
• @CharlesCNorton made their first contribution in #73
• @DIMAX99 made their first contribution in #67
• @cybernobie made their first contribution in #63
• @kevinclb made their first contribution in #46

Full Changelog: v0.0.1a2...v0.0.1a3

v0.0.1a2

Initial Release of markitdown

The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)

It presently supports:

• PDF (.pdf)
• PowerPoint (.pptx)
• Word (.docx)
• Excel (.xlsx)
• Images (EXIF metadata, and OCR)
• Audio (EXIF metadata, and speech transcription)
• HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.)
• Various other text-based formats (csv, json, xml, etc.)

The API is simple:

from markitdown import MarkItDown

markitdown = MarkItDown()
result = markitdown.convert("test.xlsx")
print(result.text_content)