> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://pdfitdown.eu/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Intro to PdfItDown
> Welcome to our documentation!
## What is PdfItDown?
**PdfItDown** is a python package that relies on [`LiteParse` by LlamaIndex](https://github.com/run-llama/liteparse) (or [`Markitdown` by Microsoft](https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown), optionally), [`markdown_pdf`](https://github.com/vb64/markdown-pdf) and [`img2pdf`](https://pypi.org/project/img2pdf/) to carry out the conversion of text-based files, images and unstructured documents to PDF. **PdfItDown** is applicable to the following file formats:
* Markdown
* PowerPoint
* Word
* Excel
* HTML
* Text-based formats (CSV, XML, JSON)
* ZIP files (iterates over contents)
* Image files (PNG, JPG)
## Setting up
To set uo PdfItDown, it is good practice to create an isolated development environment
```bash uv (recommended) theme={null}
# you can use all python versions above 3.10 and below 3.14
uv venv -p 3.13
uv add pdfitdown # default, LiteParse
uv add pdfitdown[markitdown] # Markitdown
```
```bash venv theme={null}
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install pdfitdown # default, LiteParse
pip install pdfitdown[markitdown] # Markitdown
```
## Choose how to use it
Once you have PdfItDown set up, you can choose how to use it:
Adapt PdfItDown to your pipelines by coding it yourself!
If you're a terminal lover, this is perfect for you :)
Deploy PdfItDown as an API endpoint in your Starlette-compatible backend server.