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description: Convert GIF and BMP image files to searchable text with Workers AI Markdown conversion (toMarkdown), so AI Search can index them automatically.
title: Workers AI toMarkdown and AI Search now supports GIF and BMP image conversion
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July 8, 2026

## Workers AI toMarkdown and AI Search now supports GIF and BMP image conversion

[Workers AI](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/) [AI Search](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/)

Copy as Markdown| [View as Markdown](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-08-gif-bmp-image-support/index.md)| [Agent setup](https://developers.cloudflare.com/agent-setup/)

Workers AI [Markdown conversion](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/features/markdown-conversion/) (`toMarkdown`) now supports `.gif` and `.bmp` image files, in addition to the JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG formats already supported.

GIF and BMP files run through the same [image pipeline](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/features/markdown-conversion/how-it-works/#images) as other formats. Each image is resized if needed (and for animated GIFs, only the first frame is used), then passed to an object-detection model to identify what it contains. Those detected objects prompt a vision model that writes a natural-language description of the image, which becomes searchable, machine-readable Markdown.

[AI Search](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/) uses `toMarkdown` automatically to process the files it ingests, so any `.gif` and `.bmp` files are included the next time your index syncs, with no configuration changes required. This helps when your content mixes formats, for example a support knowledge base full of screenshots or an archive of BMP scans.

Learn more about [Markdown conversion](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/features/markdown-conversion/) and the full list of [AI Search's supported file types](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/configuration/data-source/#supported-file-types).

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