[jez]

The README of MarkItDown mentions "indexing and text analysis" as the two motivating features, whereas Pandoc is more interested in document preparation via conversion that maintains rich text formatting.

Since my personal use leans towards the latter, I'm hesitant to believe that this tool will work better for me but others may have other priorities.

[gbraad]

MarkItDown feels like running strings; the output is great for text extraction and processing, not for reading by humans