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ConvertToMarkdown

Any file format to Markdown, locally, without a cloud

Situation

Every use case that builds on your own documents needs those files as reliable text first. The available tools either upload everything to a cloud or cover only one format.

Approach

Desktop application for macOS and Windows built on Tauri 2. Rather than one universal parser, each format takes the route that suits it. PDF goes through pdfium, office and markup formats through a bundled Pandoc, spreadsheets through calamine, presentations straight from the file structure, legacy office formats through LibreOffice, emails including the Outlook format, and images through the operating system's own text recognition, meaning Apple Vision and Windows.Media.Ocr respectively.

Outcome

A tool that covers the formats which actually turn up in daily work, without letting a single file leave the machine. Packaged as .dmg and .msi.