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Word to Markdown

Word to Markdown is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Convert Word (.docx) documents to Markdown via CLI, Node.js, or browser. It has 268 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with npx -y word-to-markdown.

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Install Word to Markdown

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "word-to-markdown": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "word-to-markdown"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio word-to-markdown -- npx -y word-to-markdown

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "word-to-markdown": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "word-to-markdown"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "word-to-markdown": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "word-to-markdown"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Word to Markdown

Convert Word documents to beautiful Markdown. Via command line, as a Node library, or in your browser. An even better version of the original word-to-markdown.

  • docx
  • markdown
  • typescript
  • word-to-markdown
  • cli
  • converter
  • docx-to-markdown
  • markdown-converter
  • microsoft-word
  • nodejs

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How do I install the Word to Markdown MCP server?

Add the command npx -y word-to-markdown to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Word to Markdown free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Word to Markdown actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 25, 2026. The latest release is v0.9.0, published Oct 25, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.