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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    44·
    2 days ago

    FWIW if you are interested in such tooling consider also soffice and pandoc which have (as far as I can tell) similar features but have been existing for years now and are not related to Microsoft.

    Edit: not related to Microsoft AND Google, seems the transcription aspect (which IMHO is still weird in that context but OK) is done via Google servers, cf https://lemmy.ml/post/23629310/15586865

    • haverholm@kbin.earth
      5·
      2 days ago

      The single exception to this (which is actually buried fairly deep in the feature list) is the audio transcription tool. I didn’t take a closer look at what is used to perform this, but at least it’s not “just” document conversion like pandoc.

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 days ago

        audio transcription tool

        Thanks for the clarification but I’m a bit confused here, like audio transcription, STT, done by e.g. Whisper? If so what’s the use case? When I think of Office documents audio transcription is not something I have in mind.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    81·
    3 days ago

    This could be useful to me. A while ago I was trying to make something that take all unread posts from my feed reader, make an epub out of them and then put it behind an OPDS server.

    I found converting HTML from RSS to first markdown and then compiling them to an epub the most reliable way to take out the unnecessary markup from the source HTML. I used pandoc for this.

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      I used pandoc for this.

      Please come back and share if it’s done better or worst and if so along which dimensions. Quite curious to better understand the differences.