Quickly Convert (.rtf|.doc) Files to Markdown Syntax with PHP
I've been manually converting articles into Markdown syntax for a few days now, and it's getting rather tedious. Some of these are 3 or 4 pages, italics and other emphasized text throughout. Is there a faster way to convert (.rtf|.doc) files to clean Markdown Syntax that I can take advantage of? David If you happen to be on a mac, textutil does a good job of converting doc, docx, and rtf to html, and pandoc does a good job of converting the resulting html to markdown: $ textutil -convert html file.doc -stdout | pandoc -f html -t markdown -o file.md I have a script that I threw together a while