FREE MICROSOFT TOOL

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Markitdown

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown

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Why it worked

The video addresses a common pain point for AI users: the high cost of processing large documents. By offering a free, practical solution from a trusted brand like Microsoft, it provides immediate value and encourages engagement.

Summary

This video introduces MarkitDown, a free Microsoft tool that converts various document types into Markdown format. By converting documents to Markdown, users can significantly reduce token usage when interacting with AI models like Claude, as Markdown is more efficiently processed.

Structure

1Introduce the problem of high token costs with document uploads
2Explain why standard document formats are inefficient for LLMs
3Introduce MarkitDown as a solution
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Microsoft: ACTS - it is a company that created a free tool called MarkitDown. Removing it would change what happens in the video. MarkitDown: ACTS - it is a free tool created by Microsoft that converts office documents to Markdown. Removing it would change what happens in the video. Claude: ACTS - it is an AI model that ingests documents. Removing it would change what happens in the video. GitHub: APPEARS - it is a platform where MarkitDown is hosted. Removing it would not change what happens in the video.

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FREE MICROSOFT TOOL SAVES MILLIONS IN TOKENS

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There's a free Microsoft tool that helps you cut down your Claude token usage by up to 70% because every time you upload a PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images, audio, HTML, text-based formats, ZIP files, YouTube URLs, EPUBs, and more documents, it might cost you up your context window. But if you turn it into a Markdown file, for example, like this, this type of format is delicious for LLMs to ingest because it understands it very well as opposed to a very clunky PDF with lots of images. So if they can't ingest it properly, it won't be able to give you a good answer. So you convert it into a Markdown file, it's very easy for any LLM to ingest this. So Microsoft created a free tool called MarkitDown. It's got 161,000 stars on GitHub. Also comes with an MPC integration, so you can have this in Claude automatically. So the files get converted into Markdown before Claude even processes it.