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MarkItDown (Microsoft) supports converting multiple formats to Markdown and excels at Office files and fast conversion, but PDF handling is relatively light (it uses pdfminer/pdfplumber underneath); the License is MIT.
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10/17/2026
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Valid until: 1/15/2027
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