Markitdown

Markitdown MCP Server

A lightweight MCP server for calling MarkItDown.

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Characteristics

Attribute	Details
Docker Image	mcp/markitdown⁠
Author	microsoft⁠
Repository	https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown⁠
Dockerfile	https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/packages/markitdown-mcp/Dockerfile⁠
Docker Image built by	Docker Inc.
Docker Scout Health Score
Verify Signature	COSIGN_REPOSITORY=mcp/signatures cosign verify mcp/markitdown --key https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/keyring/refs/heads/main/public/mcp/latest.pub
Licence	MIT License

Available Tools (1)

Tools Details

Tool: convert_to_markdown

Convert a resource described by an http:, https:, file: or data: URI to markdown

Use this MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "markitdown": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-v",
        "/local-directory:/local-directory",
        "mcp/markitdown"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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