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Microsoft recently open-sourced MarkItDown, a program that converts Office files to Markdown format. The project quickly climbed to GitHub’s trending list upon release.

Microsoft recently open-sourced MarkItDown, a program that converts Office files to Markdown format. To address this issue, I thought of using WebAssembly technology to run Python code directly in the browser. Pyodide comes with a robust JavaScript ⟺ Python foreign function interface that allows you to freely mix these languages in your code with minimal friction.

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