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My DOCX converter learned that 'bold' is a negotiation, not a fact

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I built a DOCX-to-Markdown converter thinking Word documents were simpler than PDFs. They're not. They're just lying in a different font. The first version used python-docx and trusted run.bold . Then I fed it a contract drafted by a law firm. The entire document rendered as plain text. Turned out…

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  1. 2026-10-27 03:03 · DEV Community — AI
    My DOCX converter learned that 'bold' is a negotiation, not a fact

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