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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week 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 3 points 1 week 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.

[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

soffice works as CLI, can be called from Python and has plenty of related tooling, e.g. https://pypi.org/project/unoserver/ so I agree, I'm confused at what's actually novel and better than that or even dedicated long lasting FLOSS projects like pandoc.

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