PPTX images not loading

[umerr1214]

I have tried several methods (except for modifying the code) to get the image extraction part to work, but it would not load any of the images for me; it is referring to them, but is not extracting them properly. What could be a possible reason for this, and how can I resolve it?
i am working on a windows OS

[Ray Munene (RayMune)]

yeah, markitdown has issues with images, since at times powerpoint maintains format of each image as it was uploaded, try having all the images in your pptx in a standard format, e.g use .png images across the board.

[LJAYi]

I took a look at the current PPTX converter, and this may not actually be a Windows or image-format problem.

By default, MarkItDown writes a placeholder Markdown reference such as:

![Picture 1](Picture1.jpg)

but it does not create the corresponding sidecar image file. You can see that behavior in the PPTX converter.

For a self-contained Markdown file, try:

markitdown --keep-data-uris input.pptx -o output.md

That embeds each picture as a base64 data URI, so there are no separate image files to lose. The downside is that the Markdown can become quite large.

If your installation does not recognize --keep-data-uris, update MarkItDown first. If you specifically need an images/ directory instead, the current CLI does not appear to provide that export mode; you would need to extract and map the PPTX media separately, or post-process the embedded data URIs.