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How to convert Word to Markdown
- Drop the file.
- Nothing to choose.
- Press Convert and download.
What happens to your file
The document is read by pandoc (through LibreOffice when it is not already a DOCX) and written as GitHub-flavoured Markdown: headings, emphasis, lists, links, tables and footnotes survive; colours, fonts and page layout do not exist in Markdown and are dropped. Pictures are referenced, not embedded.
Questions
Why is the table a little different?
Markdown tables cannot merge cells or span rows; pandoc writes the closest plain table. Complex tables come out best as HTML.
Do it once, not on every form
Fixing a file here means downloading it and going back to the form. The Fylane extension does this work inside the form instead, on the file you already have.
And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.
Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.
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Do this in code
curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"file_id": "<file id>",
"operation": "convert",
"options": {
"to": "md"
}
}'The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.