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Comment on Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?

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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.

sure but OOXML is on avg 12x~ larger than markdown so you'll burn a ton of tokens. I second using pandoc but depends on why you need it to be in markdown in the first place?

(source - I'm working on a docx MCP that abstracts OOXML complexity away from LLMs entirely)

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