benbalter/word-to-markdown

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1550 stars · 154 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby gem that converts Microsoft Word (.docx) documents into clean Markdown, using LibreOffice under the hood. It can be used as a library or CLI, though the maintainer recommends the newer word-to-markdown-js successor for new projects.

Use cases

• convert docx files to markdown
• migrate Word documents into a static site
• batch convert Word docs to markdown via CLI
• extract content from Word documents programmatically in Ruby
• convert Google Docs exports to markdown
• liberate content from Word for web publishing

When to choose

• you're already in a Ruby ecosystem and need docx-to-markdown conversion
• you need scripted or batch conversion of Word documents
• you're maintaining an existing project that already depends on this gem

When to avoid

• you're starting a new project — the maintainer recommends word-to-markdown-js instead
• you need a pure-Ruby solution without a LibreOffice dependency
• you need a browser-based or no-install conversion tool

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

parser cli pdf files developer-tools ruby cli cross-platform docx markdown-converter libreoffice word-documents content-migration automation

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