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Introducing Microsoft's open-source tool markitdown, which can convert Word, Excel, PDF, PPT and other files into Markdown format, suitable as a side hustle.
filewizard is a self-hosted web tool that integrates mature tools like FFmpeg, LibreOffice, and Pandoc, supporting file format conversion, OCR, and audio transcription. Users can deploy it with one click via Docker, and file processing is done locally.
This article highlights Pandoc, a free and open-source document conversion tool created by UC Berkeley philosophy professor John MacFarlane. It converts between over 50 formats locally without uploading files, saving significant time and maintaining privacy.
A blog post from Minimal detailing how they built a file format conversion engine using an Intermediate Representation to manage complexity linearly, drawing parallels to biological bow-tie architectures.
MashuPack converts codebases into a single clean file for use with Claude and ChatGPT, streamlining AI-assisted code review.