Pandoc is awesome for this:
`pandoc input.docx -o output.md`
There's more you can do, with style sheets and so on, which you will likely have to dig into for the tables and multiple columns to come out the way you want. You can also extract media files from inside a docx file:
`pandoc --extract-media=. input.docx -o output.md`
Pandoc is awesome for this: `pandoc input.docx -o output.md` There's more you can do, with style sheets and so on, which you will likely have to dig into for the tables and multiple columns to come out the way you want. You can also extract media files from inside a docx file: `pandoc --extract-media=. input.docx -o output.md`
Claude Code can do these types of really well unless you're trying to convert in bulk
Start with pandoc before reinventing the wheel.
I'd give an llm a shot before I ruled it out.
I had it generating .docx the other day and it did pretty well, so I assume it understands the format just fine.
And they're excellent at markdown.
Pandoc might be able to do this, found this:
https://gist.github.com/plembo/409a8d7b1bae66622dbcd26337bbb...
Pandoc can do this I think
Native support: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/onedriveblog/introd...
Microsoft OSS python: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown
There seem to be many addons that enable this, and pandoc as others have suggested