A developer discovered that raw document layouts can consume over 70,000 tokens before any LLM query, due to hidden XML tags, styling metadata, and formatting noise. To solve this, they adopted Micros…
Microsoft released MarkItDown, a free and open-source tool that converts various file formats (PDF, Word, Excel, images, audio, etc.) into clean Markdown text, reducing token usage for AI processing. …
Microsoft has released MarkItDown, a lightweight Python library and CLI tool that converts PDFs, Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint decks, and other file formats into Markdown for use in LLM pip…
A developer has created a skill called "theology-commentary-formatter" that automates the cleaning, structuring, and formatting of raw OCR and unstructured Markdown theological commentaries for Obsidi…