Microsoft open-sourced a Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
If like me you were wondering if MS actually provided their own parsers for their Office file formats... they did not.
It seems to just be a bunch of random pyxyz 3rd-party support libraries all mashed together.
What do you mean by parser? Office docs are just zipped XML files. They are trivial to parse. The hard part is all the quirks the document renderers have, which makes it impossible to perfectly match the output. But markdown can't handle any complex formatting anyway
Reading through the source code, it's more of a repackaging of other open source libraries, probably for its AI effort.
So Pandoc but worse?
