Use Case
Stop doing repetitive documents & notes tasks manually. MarkItDown lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. MarkItDown is a Python utility from Microsoft for converting various files (PDF, Word, Excel, PPTX, Images, Audio) to Markdown. Useful for extracting structu... This guide shows practical examples of using MarkItDown to automate common documents & notes workflows and save hours every week.
Install MarkItDown: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install markitdown
Identify the repetitive documents & notes tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
MarkItDown will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing MarkItDown
Automate my documents & notes tasks using MarkItDown
What repetitive tasks can MarkItDown handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs MarkItDown every morning
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install markitdownOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install markitdownβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/markitdown/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.