• Max-P
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      ~Not really. All the features of that tool are basic functions we’ve had before LibreOffice was still OpenOffice.~

      ~Since this converts to Markdown, it’s inherently a very lossy conversion. What’s hard to pull off is preserve the full formatting when converting to an odt or something.~

      Someone pointed out it doesn’t just convert word documents to Markdown, it can also transcribe and OCR, so I guess it does have some usefulness!

      • davel [he/him]
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        97 months ago

        In your saying this isn’t useful, you’re making a lot of assumptions about how someone might want to use this.

        • They may not care that it is lossy in the way that it is lossy.
        • They may want a CLI tool instead of a GUI tool.
        • They may want it as a Python library rather than as a stand-alone tool.
        • @vort3@lemmy.ml
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          37 months ago

          I convert from docx to md specifically with the purpose of getting rid of Microsoft formatting aka almost converting to plaintext but preserve at least some structure.

      • @django@discuss.tchncs.de
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        37 months ago

        I like libreoffice, but converting audio files to markdown must be a pretty recent feature, for I never heard of it before being part of libreoffice.