• Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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      6 days ago

      ~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!

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        7 days 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.

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        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.
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          7 days 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.

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          7 days 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.