microsoft / microsoft/markitdown

[outlook]: HTML Tables in outlook files

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Description

I have an outlook .msg file which contains HTML tables.
How can I extract them to markdown?

the program does not preserve the html table so it just gets dumped as plain text without formatting

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No source file or test is identified in the issue. Start by reproducing the conversion with the reported .msg file containing HTML tables and trace the existing Outlook-to-Markdown path; done means the table structure is preserved in the Markdown output rather than emitted as plain text.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
content
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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