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Yeah that was the interesting part to me, at least. Plus, it's Microsoft so hopefully it will work for their files.

• LordDragonfang 2y ago
  ...I did not catch that it was from Microsoft. I was wondering why a random markdown converter was so notable.
• _rs 2y ago
  That was the first thing I checked, and it looks like they’re using some existing python package to parse docx files. I wonder if they contributed to it or vetted it strongly
  • disgruntledphd2 2y ago
    Wow, I dunno if that's good or bad, certainly it's not what I expected.
    • wis 2y ago
      Looking at the code, it looks like they used existing Python packages to read and parse MS Office formats, not what I expected, seeing that the repo is in Microsoft's org on GitHub I expected them to have used Microsoft's "official" libraries for parsing these formats, through Component Object Model (COM). They used Mammoth for docx (Word) [1][2] Python-pptx for ppt (PowerPoint) [3][4] and Pandas for XSLX (Excel) [5] [1] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/70ab149ff1657c327ebd6ca940988f5d3c5d80d0/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py#L495 https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/70ab149ff1657c3... [2] https://pypi.org/project/mammoth/ https://pypi.org/project/mammoth/ [3] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/70ab149ff1657c327ebd6ca940988f5d3c5d80d0/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py#L539 https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/70ab149ff1657c3... [4] https://pypi.org/project/python-pptx/ https://pypi.org/project/python-pptx/ [5] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/70ab149ff1657c327ebd6ca940988f5d3c5d80d0/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py#L513 https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/70ab149ff1657c3...
      • jamwil 2y ago
        COM requires you to interact with the files through the associated MS Office applications, whereas these libs parse the ooxml file format directly.