Word to Markdown

CodexWithout deftPassed2026-11-07

Time

30s

New tokens

10.4k

Total input

73.7k

Output tokens

1.2k

Commands

4

Failed

1

Trace

1. I’ll inspect the document structure and convert its text, headings, and tables into Markdown in the current directory.

2. rg --files
   output

   demo.docx

3. python - <<'PY' from docx import Document p='demo.docx' d=Document(p) for x in d.element.body: tag=x.tag.rsplit('}',1)[-1] if tag=='p': from docx.text.paragraph import Paragraph para=Paragraph(x,d) print('P',repr(para.text), 'STYLE',para.style.name) elif tag=='tbl': from docx.table import Table t=Table(x,d) print('TABLE') for row in t.rows: print([c.text for c in row.cells]) PY (exit 1)
   output

   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'docx'

4. python - <<'PY' import zipfile, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET z=zipfile.ZipFile('demo.docx') r=ET.fromstring(z.read('word/document.xml')) ns={'w':'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main'} body=r.find('w:body',ns) for el in body: tag=el.tag.split('}')[-1] if tag=='p': s=''.join(t.text or '' for t in el.findall('.//w:t',ns)) ppr=el.find('w:pPr/w:pStyle',ns) print('P',repr(s),'STYLE', ppr.get('{%s}val'%ns['w']) if ppr is not None else '') elif tag=='tbl': print('TABLE') for tr in el.findall('w:tr',ns): print([ ''.join(t.text or '' for t in tc.findall('.//w:t',ns)) for tc in tr.findall('w:tc',ns)]) PY
   output

   P 'Demonstration of DOCX support in calibre' STYLE Title
   P 'This document demonstrates the ability of the calibre DOCX Input plugin to convert the various typographic features in a Microsoft Word (2007 and newer) document. Convert this document to a modern ebook format, such as AZW3 for Kindles or EPUB for other ebook readers, to see it in action.' STYLE 
   P 'There is support for images, tables, lists, footnotes, endnotes, links, dropcaps and various types of text and paragraph level formatting.' STYLE 
   P 'To see the DOCX conversion in action, simply add this file to calibre using the “Add Books” button and then click “Convert”.  Set the output format in the top right corner of the conversion dialog to EPUB or AZW3 and click “OK”.' STYLE 
   P '' STYLE 
   P 'Text Formatting' STYLE Heading1
   P 'Inline formatting' STYLE Heading2
   P 'Here, we demonstrate various types of inline text formatting and the use of embedded fonts.' STYLE 
   P 'Here is some bold, italic, bold-italic, underlined and struck out  text. Then, we have a superscript and a subscript. Now we see some red, green and blue text. Some text with a yellow highlight. Some text in a box. Some text in inverse video.' STYLE 
   P 'A paragraph with styled text: subtle emphasis  followed by strong text and intense emphasis. This paragraph uses document wide styles for styling rather than inline text properties as demonstrated in the previous paragraph — calibre can handle both with equal ease.' STYLE 
   P 'Fun with fonts' STYLE Heading2
   
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5. python - <<'PY' import zipfile, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET, re z=zipfile.ZipFile('demo.docx') root=ET.fromstring(z.read('word/document.xml')) ns={'w':'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main'} body=root.find('w:body',ns) out=[] def celltext(tc): return ''.join(t.text or '' for t in tc.findall('.//w:t',ns)).replace('|','\\\\|').replace('\\n','<br>') for el in body: tag=el.tag.split('}')[-1] if tag=='p': text=''.join(t.text or '' for t in el.findall('.//w:t',ns)).strip() if not text: continue style=el.find('w:pPr/w:pStyle',ns) sty=style.get('{%s}val'%ns['w'],'') if style is not None else '' if sty=='Title': out.extend(['# '+text,'']) elif sty.startswith('Heading'): level=re.search(r'\\d+',sty) out.extend([('#'*int(level.group()))+' '+text,'']) elif sty.startswith('TOC'): continue elif sty=='ListParagraph': out.extend(['- '+text,'']) else: out.extend([text,'']) elif tag=='tbl': rows=[] for tr in el.findall('w:tr',ns): rows.append([celltext(tc) for tc in tr.findall('w:tc',ns)]) if not rows: continue width=max(map(len,rows)) rows=[r+['']*(width-len(r)) for r in rows] out.append('| '+' | '.join(rows[0])+' |') out.append('| '+' | '.join(['---']*width)+' |') for row in rows[1:]: out.append('| '+' | '.join(row)+' |') out.append('') open('demo.md','w',encoding='utf-8').write('\\n'.join(out).rstrip()+'\\n') PY

6. Converted [demo.docx](<demo.docx>) to [demo.md](<demo.md>), preserving the headings and tables.

Output

Files not kept here, for licence reasons.

Claude Opus 5.5Without deftFailed2026-11-07

demo.md does not contain "| ---"

Time

51s

New tokens

24.1k

Total input

135.9k

Output tokens

5.8k

Commands

0

Failed

0

Trace

Output

Files not kept here, for licence reasons.