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docs: add pypandoc to File Format Processing intro
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- ELF binaries and DWARF debug info: pyelftools
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- A table you import or export as CSV, JSON, YAML, or Excel: Tablib
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- Documents turned into Markdown for an LLM: MarkItDown, or Docling for complex layouts and scans
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- Documents converted between Markdown, Word, LaTeX, and HTML: pypandoc
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- Excel: openpyxl to edit a workbook, XlsxWriter to create one with charts and formatting
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- Word documents: python-docx
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- PowerPoint decks: python-pptx
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Docling is for documents where layout matters: it [understands page layout, reading order, and tables, and runs OCR](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/) on scanned PDFs. It converts each file into a `DoclingDocument`, which you export to Markdown.
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pypandoc wraps pandoc, which [converts between Markdown, Word, LaTeX, HTML, and many other formats](https://pandoc.org/) in both directions. It needs pandoc on your machine, and the [`pypandoc_binary` package](https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc#installation) includes it. Pass a path to `convert_file()`, or a string and its `format` to `convert_text()`. For output formats like DOCX and EPUB, [pass an `outputfile`](https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc#usage), since that's the only way to convert to them.
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openpyxl reads and writes Excel workbooks, so it's the one to use when the file already exists. Install defusedxml when you open spreadsheets from other people, since openpyxl [doesn't guard against XML attacks](https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#security) by default.
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XlsxWriter [can't read or modify existing files](https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.io/introduction.html). In return, it supports more Excel features than the alternatives, and its files are close to what Excel itself writes.
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