markitdown v0.1.8b1

This prerelease includes numerous small bug fixes. None adds new features or is expected to change output in typical cases. Nevertheless, the volume of changes warrants a cautious rollout.

Please report any issues or regressions.

What's Changed

• Pin GitHub Actions to full-length commit SHAs by @danfiedler-msft in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2316
• Mitigate UnicodeDecodeError due to wrong ASCII charset guess for long files by @fcatalan92 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2360
• fix: support extended content-disposition filenames by @cat0825 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2045
• fix: fall back to plain text when RSS item content triggers RecursionError by @shoemoney in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2333
• fix(cli): allow Content Understanding conversion from stdin by @uczltw6 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2318
• fix: correct \underleftarrow macro and map math italic h in equation conversion by @gdols in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2293
• feat(cli): support MARKITDOWN_CU_ENDPOINT / MARKITDOWN_DOCINTEL_ENDPOINT by @seenws in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2358
• fix(csv): strip the UTF-8 BOM and skip blank rows before building the table by @uuzzrm in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2303
• Preserve strikethrough from <strike> and CSS line-through by @gyanu2507 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2342
• Fix percent-encoded Windows drive paths in file URIs by @tandede in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2315
• fix: escape pipes and newlines in CSV values by @asjad3 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2266
• fix(epub): safely extract metadata text without crashing on None nodeValue or nested elements by @hsusul in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2247
• fix: handle math run with no text child in OMML->LaTeX conversion by @S1MS4 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2189
• fix: IpynbConverter.accepts() catches UnicodeDecodeError on non-decodable content (fixes #1894) by @hanhan761 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1929
• fix(docx): ignore malformed styles missing type by @gingerninja85 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2190
• Preserve percent-encoded octets in href paths by @Sonai124 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2173
• fix: remove extra closing brace from caron and ring-above accent templates by @AndrewAvery7 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2279
• fix: preserve strikethrough semantics for <strike>, line-through CSS, and w:dstrike by @wasim-builds in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2356
• fix: buffer CLI stdin before format detection on Windows by @mohui666 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2351
• fix(rss): preserve Atom XHTML content by @weivwang in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2297
• fix: initialize md_text in _parse_rss_type to prevent UnboundLocalError by @smedavarapu1 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2164
• fix: ZipConverter renders '(unknown)' instead of literal 'None' when stream has no source info by @JSap0914 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2134
• fix: truncate uppercase data image URIs by @pony-maggie in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2122
• fix(doc-intel): default api_version to None in DocumentIntelligenceConverter by @MeiSiristhebest in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2267
• fix(outlook): read .msg string properties saved in the non-Unicode format by @gdols in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2295
• fix: handle URI schemes case-insensitively by @pony-maggie in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2121
• fix: normalize data URI parameter case by @pony-maggie in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2120
• fix(xlsx): tolerate legacy showZeroes sheet views by @he-yufeng in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2064
• docs: use canonical markdown result property by @CooperSheroy in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2259
• fix(youtube): handle missing title metadata without raising AssertionError by @hsusul in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2238
• Bump actions/checkout from 5.1.0 to 7.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2320
• Bump actions/setup-python from 5.6.0 to 7.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2321
• fix(ipynb): preserve leading # in notebook heading titles by @Alphaxiaoteng in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2371
• fix(docx): preserve underlined text by @he-yufeng in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2017
• fix(pptx): ignore empty llm captions by @Lubrsy706 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1886
• fix: PptxConverter tolerates None shape.text and notes text by @alvinttang in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2059
• fix(pptx): prevent crash in PptxConverter when chart title lacks a text frame by @aoright in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2194
• fix: catch OSError when exiftool binary is missing (#1960) by @doitgo in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2082
• Fix exiftool JSON decoding to use UTF-8 by @Vedant43hh in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2067
• fix: WikipediaConverter renders hash None heading when page has no title by @hanhan761 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1990
• fix: guard against missing oMath element in DOCX math converter (#1979) by @hanhan761 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1995
• fix: handle DOCX files with inconsistent ZIP filename casing (#1812) by @lyydsheep in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2016
• Support short YouTube URLs by @MukundaKatta in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1882
• fix: suppress pydub RuntimeWarning when ffmpeg is missing (fixes #1685) by @hanhan761 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1985
• chore: remove unused mammoth import from PlainTextConverter (#1951) by @hanhan761 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1953
• fix(rss): treat Atom text content and summary as plain text by @lazerg in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2374
• fix: ImageConverter gracefully handles LLM API failures (fixes #1942) by @hanhan761 in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1948
• fix(docx): handle unknown math functions in OMML converter without crashing by @MeiSiristhebest in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2268
• Update README to help scope PRs. by @afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2376

New Contributors

• @danfiedler-msft made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2316
• @fcatalan92 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2360
• @cat0825 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2045
• @shoemoney made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2333
• @uczltw6 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2318
• @gdols made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2293
• @seenws made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2358
• @uuzzrm made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2303
• @gyanu2507 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2342
• @tandede made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2315
• @asjad3 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2266
• @hsusul made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2247
• @S1MS4 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2189
• @hanhan761 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1929
• @gingerninja85 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2190
• @Sonai124 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2173
• @AndrewAvery7 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2279
• @wasim-builds made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2356
• @mohui666 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2351
• @weivwang made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2297
• @smedavarapu1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2164
• @JSap0914 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2134
• @pony-maggie made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2122
• @MeiSiristhebest made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2267
• @he-yufeng made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2064
• @CooperSheroy made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2259
• @Alphaxiaoteng made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2371
• @Lubrsy706 made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1886
• @alvinttang made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2059
• @aoright made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2194
• @doitgo made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2082
• @Vedant43hh made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2067
• @lyydsheep made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2016
• @MukundaKatta made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1882
• @lazerg made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/2374

Full Changelog: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/compare/v0.1.7...v0.1.8a1