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Congrats! Cool project! I’d been curious about whether GPT would be good for this task. Looks like this answers it!

Why did you choose markdown? Did you try other output formats and see if you get better results?

Also, I wonder how HMTL performs. It would be a way to handle tables with groupings/merged cells

I think that I'll add an optional configuration for HTML vs Markdown. Which at the end of the day will just prompt the model differently.

I've not seen a meaningful difference between either, except when it comes to tables. It seems like HTML tends to outperform markdown tables, especially when you have a lot of complexity (i.e. tables within tables, lots of subheaders).

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