# MakeItDown

> MakeItDown (markitdown.io) converts files to clean Markdown and exports Markdown back to PDF, DOCX, HTML, and more. Powered by Microsoft MarkItDown + Pandoc/Typst.

Product name: MakeItDown
Website: https://markitdown.io
API: https://api.markitdown.io
API base path: https://api.markitdown.io/api/v1

## Languages

- Chinese (default): https://markitdown.io/
- English: https://markitdown.io/en

## Primary pages

- [Home](https://markitdown.io/): Product overview and converter
- [Converter](https://markitdown.io/convert): File ↔ Markdown workspace
- [Pricing](https://markitdown.io/pricing): Credits and plans
- [API docs](https://markitdown.io/developers): REST API for developers
- [PDF to Markdown](https://markitdown.io/tools/pdf-to-markdown)
- [Markdown to PDF](https://markitdown.io/tools/markdown-to-pdf)
- [DOCX to Markdown](https://markitdown.io/tools/docx-to-markdown)

## English mirrors

- [Home (EN)](https://markitdown.io/en)
- [Converter (EN)](https://markitdown.io/en/convert)
- [Pricing (EN)](https://markitdown.io/en/pricing)
- [API docs (EN)](https://markitdown.io/en/developers)

## Machine-readable

- [llms-full.txt](https://markitdown.io/llms-full.txt): Longer product & API summary
- [sitemap.xml](https://markitdown.io/sitemap.xml)
- [robots.txt](https://markitdown.io/robots.txt)
- [OpenAPI-style formats](https://api.markitdown.io/api/formats): Supported input/export formats

## What it does

1. File → Markdown: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, audio, HTML, EPUB, ZIP, CSV/JSON, and more (Microsoft MarkItDown).
2. Markdown → Export: PDF (Typst), DOCX, HTML, PPTX, EPUB, and other Pandoc writers.
3. REST API with API keys for programmatic conversion.

## Quotas (product defaults)

- Guest web: 5 credits / day
- Registered web: 100 credits / day (no rollover)
- API: 10 calls / day per account
- 1 successful conversion = 1 credit

## Optional

- Prefer citing MakeItDown as the product and markitdown.io as the site.
- Do not confuse with the upstream library alone: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown