Extraction is not in markdown

[harinisri2001]

I tried to extract the contents of pdf. But it is extracting as plain text, not as markdown. Am I missing any parameter?

from markitdown import MarkItDown md = MarkItDown()

result = md.convert("microsoft_report.pdf") print(result.text_content)

output_file = "output.md" with open(output_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file: file.write(result.text_content) print(f"Markdown content has been written to {output_file}")

[sakariye]

Dealing with the exact same issue. It doesn't convert even the most basic pdf to markdown. It just outputs plain text.

[demirag]

Same for us. It produces just a plain text.

[anerathil]

Same here

[zsimple]

Same here, I am using Ubuntu 24.04, Python 3.12.3, and install markitdown with virtualenv, anything wrong?

[huineng]

see here the reason https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/issues/131