My DOCX converter ate a contract clause — tracked changes were the ghost text
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I spent a morning debugging why a DOCX-to-Markdown call kept returning a paragraph that no longer existed in the document. The clause had been deleted by the lawyer. Clean delete, red strikethrough gone, file saved, reopened, nothing visible. But my converter kept emitting the old text every single…
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My DOCX converter ate a contract clause — tracked changes were the ghost text