microsoft/markitdown
Turn PDFs, Word, Excel and slides into Markdown with MarkItDown
Microsoft's lightweight Python tool that converts office files, PDFs, HTML, images and more into clean Markdown an agent can read. It comes as a command line tool, a library and an MCP server package.
When to use it
Use it when the agent needs to read a pile of contracts, quotes or reports that arrive as Office or PDF files.
What it can access
- Runs code
- Reads or writes files
Before you install it: Runs locally and reads the files you pass it; plugins are off by default. Only the optional OCR plugin or cloud document service sends content out, so leave those off for sensitive files.
Open-source tools often need access tokens for your apps. Wize reads the code, keeps the access as narrow as the job allows, and sets it up so a person approves anything that goes out.