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# Markitdown: Convert Anything to Markdown The `markitdown` MCP server exposes a single tool that converts any supported resource to Markdown. It is available in both the albino plugin (Claude Code / Cursor) and Claude Desktop. ## Tool ``` mcp__plugin_albino_markitdown__convert_to_markdown(uri: string) ``` The `uri` parameter accepts: | Scheme | Example | Use for | |--------|---------|---------| | `file:` | `file:///Users/you/report.pdf` | Local files on disk | | `https:` / `http:` | `https://example.com/page` | Web pages and remote documents | | `data:` | `data:text/html;base64,...` | Inline base64-encoded content | ## Supported Formats PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP archives, images (with EXIF metadata and OCR), audio (with speech transcription), EPubs, and YouTube URLs. ## When to Use - User says "convert this file to markdown", "read this PDF", "extract text from this Word doc" - User pastes a file path and asks what is in it - User wants to summarize or process a document before passing it to another tool - User needs to index or search document content ## How to Use **Local file:** ``` mcp__plugin_albino_markitdown__convert_to_markdown( uri="file:///absolute/path/to/file.pdf" ) ``` Always use an absolute path. Relative paths will fail. **Remote URL:** ``` mcp__plugin_albino_markitdown__convert_to_markdown( uri="https://example.com/document" ) ``` ## After Conversion The tool returns the full Markdown content as a string. You c