You said

read this page, https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown make a command easily runnable with uv to convert something to markdown

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ChatGPT said

I’m checking the repo page and its usage so I can give you a command that works cleanly with uv.

Yep. Based on the repo README, the CLI usage is:

markitdown path-to-file.pdf -o document.md GitHub

And installation with all format support is:

pip install 'markitdown[all]' GitHub

So the easiest uv one-liner is:

Bashuvx --from 'markitdown[all]' markitdown input.pdf -o output.md

Examples:

Bashuvx --from 'markitdown[all]' markitdown report.docx -o report.md
uvx --from 'markitdown[all]' markitdown slides.pptx -o slides.md
uvx --from 'markitdown[all]' markitdown sheet.xlsx -o sheet.md

If you want a version with shell variables:

BashINPUT="file.pdf"; OUTPUT="${INPUT%.*}.md"; uvx --from 'markitdown[all]' markitdown "$INPUT" -o "$OUTPUT"

If you will use it often, install it into your project env instead:

Bashuv add 'markitdown[all]'
uv run markitdown input.pdf -o output.md

The repo also notes that optional extras exist by format, such as [pdf], [docx], and [pptx], so you can use narrower installs if you do not want everything. GitHub

A tiny reusable shell function would be:

Bashmdown () {
  local input="$1"
  local output="${2:-${input%.*}.md}"
  uvx --from 'markitdown[all]' markitdown "$input" -o "$output"
}

Then run:

Bashmdown myfile.pdf
mdown myfile.docx notes.md