microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
PDF L1/L2 headers
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Description
The library doesn't seem to create any headers when creating markdown from PDF documents. Without a header, there is nothing to delineate sections in the document, which is an important function for LLM chunking.
Any plans to add L1/L2 headers to markitdown?
Alternate implementations for PDF parsing
It seems that PDFPlumber and/or PyMuPDF might have better semantic awareness and might be better at preserving headers and such. Would there be any interest in exploring alternative libraries?
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. First locate the PDF conversion path and determine how the current parser represents section headings, then assess the suggested PDFPlumber or PyMuPDF alternatives. Done means PDF-to-Markdown output preserves appropriate L1/L2 headers and includes tests covering the resulting structure.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100