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Hi HN,

I wanted to share a free online tool I created to let everyone easily test Microsoft's new open-source project, MarkItdown. It enables rapid conversion of different file formats and web pages into clean Markdown text. It's surprisingly fast and versatile.

Give it a try here: https://markitdown.pro/

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome!

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> Your files are processed directly in your browser, and no files are uploaded to our servers or stored by us.

How does it run a Python library entirely browser side? Just curious.

(Given the faff of setting up a Python environment, this is a great idea.)

It doesn't. It seems to send a POST request to an API endpoint to do the processing (in direct contradiction with their FAQ section)

Now you make me wonder if I could run this entirely inside pyscript

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