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
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- content
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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