Nepali documents, converted faithfully

Likhit is Jawafdehi's public MarkItDown plugin for Nepal-specific document support. It adds Nepali PDF repair, layout-aware Markdown assembly, optional OCR for image-dominant pages, and legacy .doc support. For PDFs it evaluates several extraction paths and returns the best result rather than trusting one fixed pipeline.

pip install likhit

Then enable plugins when you convert: MarkItDown(enable_plugins=True), or from the CLI markitdown --use-plugins document.pdf.

Source PyPI Jawafdehi

Devanagari repair Recovers conjuncts and matras that ordinary extraction turns into replacement characters.
Layout-aware Markdown Reconstructs reading order and tables instead of emitting a flat character dump.
OCR when needed Falls back to a vision model on image-only pages, which no text layer can serve.
Legacy formats Reads the .doc and Preeti-era files government archives are actually made of.

Convert from the command line

The package installs likhit-save, a helper that runs MarkItDown with the plugin enabled and writes the Markdown out for you — no Python needed.

One file likhit-save notice.pdf --out notice.md
Many files likhit-save a.pdf b.pdf --out-dir converted/
Page range likhit-save report.pdf --pages 2-4 --out pages.md

Benchmark

Every result below is generated from real, published government documents — no synthetic fixtures — and re-run on each commit. Pick a document to read what Likhit extracted, compare the OCR configurations, and check the assertions that gate the build.

Select a document result