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

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