diff --git a/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml b/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
index afb5d319..e25b0dd9 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ all = [
   "SpeechRecognition",
   "youtube-transcript-api~=1.0.0",
   "azure-ai-documentintelligence",
-  "azure-identity"
+  "azure-identity",
+  "pdfplumber",
 ]
 pptx = ["python-pptx"]
 docx = ["mammoth", "lxml"]
diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
index 3027efc6..d00defba 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ def __init__(
         # TODO - remove these (see enable_builtins)
         self._llm_client: Any = None
         self._llm_model: Union[str | None] = None
+        self._llm_promtp: Union[str | None] = None
         self._exiftool_path: Union[str | None] = None
         self._style_map: Union[str | None] = None
 
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ def enable_builtins(self, **kwargs) -> None:
             # TODO: Move these into converter constructors
             self._llm_client = kwargs.get("llm_client")
             self._llm_model = kwargs.get("llm_model")
+            self._llm_prompt = kwargs.get("llm_prompt")
             self._exiftool_path = kwargs.get("exiftool_path")
             self._style_map = kwargs.get("style_map")
 
@@ -559,6 +561,9 @@ def _convert(
                 if "llm_model" not in _kwargs and self._llm_model is not None:
                     _kwargs["llm_model"] = self._llm_model
 
+                if "llm_prompt" not in _kwargs and self._llm_prompt is not None:
+                    _kwargs["llm_prompt"] = self._llm_prompt
+
                 if "style_map" not in _kwargs and self._style_map is not None:
                     _kwargs["style_map"] = self._style_map
 
diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_pdf_converter.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_pdf_converter.py
index 63162d52..1be3110d 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_pdf_converter.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_pdf_converter.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from typing import BinaryIO, Any
 
 
+from ._html_converter import HtmlConverter
 from .._base_converter import DocumentConverter, DocumentConverterResult
 from .._stream_info import StreamInfo
 from .._exceptions import MissingDependencyException, MISSING_DEPENDENCY_MESSAGE
@@ -72,6 +73,84 @@ def convert(
             )
 
         assert isinstance(file_stream, io.IOBase)  # for mypy
-        return DocumentConverterResult(
-            markdown=pdfminer.high_level.extract_text(file_stream),
-        )
+        try:
+            import base64
+            from PIL import Image
+
+            import pdfplumber
+            import markdownify
+
+            def extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path):
+                markdown_text = ""
+                with pdfplumber.open(pdf_path) as pdf:
+                    for page in pdf.pages:
+                        text = page.extract_text()
+                        if text:
+                            markdown_text += (
+                                markdownify.markdownify(text, heading_style="ATX")
+                                + "\n\n"
+                            )
+                return markdown_text
+
+            def extract_images_from_pdf(pdf_path):
+                image_list = []
+                with pdfplumber.open(pdf_path) as pdf:
+                    for i, page in enumerate(pdf.pages):
+                        for img in page.images:
+                            bbox = (img["x0"], img["top"], img["x1"], img["bottom"])
+                            cropped_image = page.to_image(resolution=150)
+                            image_list.append((i + 1, cropped_image))
+                return image_list
+
+            def describe_image_with_llm(image: Image.Image, **kwargs) -> str:
+                try:
+                    llm_client = kwargs.get("llm_client")
+                    llm_model = kwargs.get("llm_model")
+                    buffered = io.BytesIO()
+                    image.save(buffered, format="PNG")
+                    img_b64 = base64.b64encode(buffered.getvalue()).decode()
+
+                    response = llm_client.chat.completions.create(
+                        model=llm_model,
+                        messages=[
+                            {
+                                "role": "user",
+                                "content": [
+                                    {
+                                        "type": "text",
+                                        "text": "Write a detailed caption for this image.",
+                                    },
+                                    {
+                                        "type": "image_url",
+                                        "image_url": {
+                                            "url": f"data:image/png;base64,{img_b64}"
+                                        },
+                                    },
+                                ],
+                            }
+                        ],
+                    )
+                    return response.choices[0].message.content
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+
+            def convert_pdf_to_markdown_with_images(pdf_path, **kwargs):
+                md_text = extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path)
+                images = extract_images_from_pdf(pdf_path)
+
+                for idx, (page_num, image) in enumerate(images):
+                    description = describe_image_with_llm(image, **kwargs)
+                    md_text += (
+                        f"\n\n![Image{idx+1} - Page {page_num}]\n\n> {description}\n"
+                    )
+
+                return md_text
+
+            return DocumentConverterResult(
+                markdown=convert_pdf_to_markdown_with_images(file_stream, **kwargs)
+            )
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            return DocumentConverterResult(
+                markdown=pdfminer.high_level.extract_text(file_stream),
+            )