Background
PDF documents due to its fixed format, not easy to edit the characteristics of the user often brings the sharing and modification of the trouble. markPDFDown is designed to solve this problem.
Core Solutions
- Using multimodal model transformationConvert PDF to editable Markdown format by installing the MarkPDFDown tool and calling OpenAI's Multimodal Large Model API.
- Retaining document structure: The tool automatically recognizes headings, lists, tables and other elements and converts them to Markdown syntax.
- Various ways to use::
- Convert the entire file directly using the command line
- Specify the page number range to convert part of the content
- Avoiding Environment Configuration by Running Docker Containers
operation suggestion
It is recommended to follow these steps when using it for the first time: 1. Prepare the Python 3.9 environment 2. Obtain the OpenAI API key 3. Test the conversion of a single file 4. If you need to batch process you can write a shell script to loop the call
caveat
Note that the file path should not contain Chinese, the API key should be properly stored, and the network should be stable for large file conversion.
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