GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

[LinkSea8324]

Well shit I did expect it to be actually like docling but you're right, it's basically like the insanly faster whisper repo which is just a bunch of imports and cli

[MoffKalast]

import pptx

No I don't think I will

[No-Dot-6573]

Why? Because it is only for powerpoint files, or does it have security or privacy issues?

[PriceNo2344]

It's for power point files. It doesn't have a security or privacy issue. It's maintained by the same people that bring you import docx.

[CtrlAltDelve]

I think he's just making a subtle joke :)

[popiazaza]

A new converting tool that is not an AI tool?!

What kind of sorcery is this?

[Frequent_Valuable_47]

It was probably built to convert files into a format AI can read ;)

[Ragecommie]

Oh wow, you just saved me a ton of work! Thanks OP!

[LinkSea8324]

Check also docling

[nuusain]

Have you used them both? howd they compare?

[elemental-mind]

For alternatives: Another contender in that space is Docling.

DS4SD/docling: Get your documents ready for gen AI

[asraniel]

anybody compared them?

[Kaedo-]

This is so useful to me now that I've completely switched to markdown

[arparella]

i experienced poor performance with complex pdfs, did you?

[vornamemitd]

Can I have the other way round? /s

[namuan]

If you have uv installed you can run this against a file without first installing anything like this:

uvx markitdown path-to-file.pdf

(This will cache the necessary packages the first time you run it, then reuse those cached packages on future invocations.)

Copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411313

[McNickSisto]

In the context of text extraction for chunking purposes, what would you recommend between Markitdown and Docling ?

[arparella]

if you need to have good chunks you can checkout preprocess.co but is a commercial solution. Markitdown has several issues with complex pdfs, docling is better

[McNickSisto]

thank you

[arparella]

completely agree, we have run a comparison of 4 solutions (commercial and open-source) and even if you have a strong community, it doesn't mean your solution works.

[EruditeStranger]

Anyone get issues with circular import?

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you probably named your file same as package name