microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
Extraction is not in markdown
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Description
I tried to extract the contents of pdf. But it is extracting as plain text, not as markdown. Am I missing any parameter?
from markitdown import MarkItDown
md = MarkItDown()
result = md.convert("microsoft_report.pdf")
print(result.text_content)
output_file = "output.md"
with open(output_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
file.write(result.text_content)
print(f"Markdown content has been written to {output_file}")
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Start by reproducing the report through MarkItDown().convert("microsoft_report.pdf") and inspect result.text_content before it is written to output.md. Determine whether the returned content contains the expected Markdown structure; done means the PDF conversion behavior is corrected or clearly documented.
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- python
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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