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Word to Markdown

Headings, emphasis, lists, links and tables as Markdown text.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert Word to Markdown

  1. Drop the file.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. 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 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.