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Re:MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office d... by btown on Friday December 13, 2024 @02:39PM (#42411626)
For PDFs it's entirely a wrapper around https://pdfminersix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/highle... - https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markit...

So if that's your use case, PDFMiner might be better to integrate with directly!

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Re:MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office d... by persedes on Friday December 13, 2024 @04:12PM (#42412398)
or just use pymupdf
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Re:MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office d... by E_Bfx on Saturday December 14, 2024 @02:07AM (#42415242)
pymupdf has a commercial licence that couldb be a problem if use in a compagny.
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