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Juan Huguet
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I wrote about Microsoft's Markitdown back in 2024, but it's grown into a big messy project now :/
It would be more valuable if Microsoft provided high-quality official libraries for converting their proprietary formats to Markdown (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, OneNote, etc).
For now Obsidian's Markdown conversion options are:
1. Obsidian Web Clipper for converting URLs
2. Obsidian Importer for converting from apps like Notion, Apple Notes, Google Keep, Microsoft OneNote, Evernote, etc
Vaishnavi@_vmlops
MICROSOFT BUILT A TOOL THAT CONVERTS LITERALLY ANYTHING INTO CLEAN MARKDOWN FOR YOUR LLM pdfs. word docs. excel. powerpoint. audio. youtube urls one pip install and your AI pipeline stops choking on raw files forever no custom parsers. no broken layouts. no garbled text. just clean, structured markdown your LLM can actually read github.com/microsoft/mark…
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@kepano I just tried it this morning on the 245-page Mythos pdf and it failed badly and the outputs were all mangled. Converting pdfs is really hard, I think it has to probably be a Skill not a program, for a SOTA LLM for it to work properly.
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