[Pandoc 1.12.3.1] Never ending docx to HTML conversion with 100% CPU usage

[Samuel Viscapi <sviscapi-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org>]

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Dear all,

I'm trying to turn a "simple", one-page DOCX document into an HTML page, 
using pandoc 1.12.3.1 on CentOS 7.7 x86_64 (yeah, it's fairly old I know, 
should I try to compile the newest version from source ?).

At first the conversion failed because of some UTF-8 related errors, but 
those are well documented in the manual:

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#character-encoding

Now, I'm faced with a never ending process silently eating ~100% CPU time 
for hours (before eventually getting terminated by the system).

My command reads as follows:

iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8 file.docx | pandoc -o output.html

Since the docx file originated from Windows, its character encoding is 
"Western Alphabet", thus I hope "latin1" is a close enough approximation.

I tried to explicitly tell pandoc about the input and output formats (-f 
docx -t html) but to no avail... (pandoc: Unknown reader: docx)

I also played a while with extensions (--from docx+empty_paragraphs, --from 
docx+styles, etc...), no luck so far.

What am I doing wrong ?

Best regards,

Samuel, from CINES (Montpellier, France)

https://www.cines.fr/en/

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