microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
Invalid readme - it's not able to convert PDF to markdown
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Description
And it wasn't going to do it. It just take output from pdfminer, which is declared as "a text extraction tool for PDF documents".
Markdown is something different
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Research direction
Read the README's PDF conversion description and compare it with the issue's distinction between text extraction and Markdown conversion. Update the documentation so it accurately describes the behavior, then verify that the README no longer claims direct PDF-to-Markdown conversion.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100