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# Camel.loaders.markitdown

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<a id="camel.loaders.markitdown.MarkItDownLoader" />

## MarkItDownLoader

```python theme={"system"}
class MarkItDownLoader:
```

MarkitDown convert various file types into Markdown format.

Supported Input Formats:

* PDF
* Microsoft Office documents:
* Word (.doc, .docx)
* Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
* PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
* EPUB
* HTML
* Images (with EXIF metadata and OCR support)
* Audio files (with EXIF metadata and speech transcription)
* Text-based formats:
* CSV
* JSON
* XML
* ZIP archives (iterates over contents)
* YouTube URLs (via transcript extraction)

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### **init**

```python theme={"system"}
def __init__(
    self,
    llm_client: Optional[object] = None,
    llm_model: Optional[str] = None
):
```

Initializes the Converter.

**Parameters:**

* **llm\_client** (Optional\[object]): Optional client for LLM integration. (default: :obj:`None`)
* **llm\_model** (Optional\[str]): Optional model name for the LLM. (default: :obj:`None`)

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### \_validate\_format

```python theme={"system"}
def _validate_format(self, file_path: str):
```

Validates if the file format is supported.

**Parameters:**

* **file\_path** (str): Path to the input file.

**Returns:**

bool: True if the format is supported, False otherwise.

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### convert\_file

```python theme={"system"}
def convert_file(self, file_path: str):
```

Converts the given file to Markdown format.

**Parameters:**

* **file\_path** (str): Path to the input file.

**Returns:**

str: Converted Markdown text.

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### convert\_files

```python theme={"system"}
def convert_files(
    self,
    file_paths: List[str],
    parallel: bool = False,
    skip_failed: bool = False
):
```

Converts multiple files to Markdown format.

**Parameters:**

* **file\_paths** (List\[str]): List of file paths to convert.
* **parallel** (bool): Whether to process files in parallel. (default: :obj:`False`)
* **skip\_failed** (bool): Whether to skip failed files instead of including error messages. (default: :obj:`False`)

**Returns:**

Dict\[str, str]: Dictionary mapping file paths to their
converted Markdown text.