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)