Developer ToolsstructuralETLDocumentationMigrationAPI

Word documents with tables lose fidelity converting to Markdown

Complex Microsoft Word documents containing tables, multi-column layouts, and strikethrough text fail to convert cleanly to Markdown when routed through LibreOffice and PDF intermediaries. Developers building document ingestion pipelines need a reliable direct Word-to-Markdown conversion path.

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