Transform DOCX into LLM-ready data

https://contextgem.dev/converters/docx.html

15 5 1 year ago

As part of work on my open-source project ContextGem, I've built a native, zero-dependency DOCX converter that transforms Word documents into LLM-ready data.

This custom-built converter directly processes Word XML, provides comprehensive content extraction + covers what other open-source tools often miss or lack support for:

- Rich paragraph and sentence metadata for enhanced context

- Misaligned tables

- Comments, footnotes, and textboxes

- Embedded images

The converted document can then be easily used in ContextGem's LLM extraction workflows.

Perfect for developers building contract intelligence applications where precision matters. The converter preserves document structure and relationships, empowering LLMs to better understand and analyze document content.

Try it / share with your dev team today and see the difference in your document processing pipeline!

GitHub: https://github.com/shcherbak-ai/contextgem

All DocxConverter features: https://contextgem.dev/converters/docx.html

WalterGR• 1 year ago

zero-dependency DOCX converter

I’ve read that there are a lot of OpenXML elements that are pretty opaque. They appear to basically be XML-esque representations of binary, in-memory structs used internally by Office. (Maybe this has changed over time.)

How much OpenXML does this actually handle?

Extracts information that other open-source tools often do not capture: misaligned tables

Could you expand on what you mean by misaligned tables? Are these tables that appear as separate ‘table nodes’ in the XML, or ones that appear as a single node but have wonky formatting?

obeavs• 1 year ago

Hey! This is really awesome. Do you intend to support analysis on redlining/tracked changes? That's where it would become very useful for my use cases.

eightysixfour• 1 year ago

Yes, this is the one that always gets me in the MS ecosystem. Would make a few of my workflows so much better.

TiredOfLife• 1 year ago

How it compares to https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown?

Transform DOCX into LLM-ready data

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