Re: UTF-8 error when converting Docx to Markdown

[Farhan <khanzf-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Sorry to answer my own question, but a few hours of Googling for me the 
answer. You can use the tool unoconv to accomplish this task:

unoconv --stdout -f html test.docx | pandoc -f html -t markdown -o test.md

Hope this helps the next guy!



On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:56:51 AM UTC-5, Farhan wrote:
>
> I forgot to mention, when I attempt to use iconv, as the documentation 
> suggests, I receive a similar error:
>
> $ iconv -t utf-8 test.docx
> P)Ficonv: illegal input sequence at position 12
>
> On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:54:11 AM UTC-5, Farhan wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can convert a markdown file to docx:
>>
>> $ pandoc test.md -o test.docx
>>
>> The resulting file "test.docx" opens just fine with both MS Word 2013 and 
>> LibreOffice. However, when I attempt to convert that same resultant Docx 
>> file back to markdown, I get an error:
>>
>> $ pandoc test.docx -t markdown -o test.md
>> pandoc: Cannot decode byte '\x9f': Data.Text.Encoding.Fusion.streamUtf8: 
>> Invalid UTF-8 stream
>>
>> I get the same error when I try to convert Docx to any other format as 
>> well, such as HTML. The issue seems to be that there is an invalid UTF-8 
>> character. Is there a way to resolve this issue? Please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>

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