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Austin Brister's

Legal Markdown Converter

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Supports Word, RTF, HTML, PDFs (including scanned), Emails (EML/MSG), ZIP archives, and more

Scanned PDFs use OCR and may take several minutes for long documents. Max ~40 pages for OCR.

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Austin Brister - Houston, Texas

Disclaimer • Open Source Licenses

Open Source Licenses

This software incorporates the following open source components:

Microsoft MarkItDown

Core document conversion library
MIT License - Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
github.com/microsoft/markitdown

Flask

Web framework
BSD-3-Clause License - Copyright (c) Pallets
flask.palletsprojects.com

PyMuPDF

PDF processing
AGPL-3.0 License (or Commercial) - Copyright (c) Artifex Software
pymupdf.readthedocs.io

Tesseract OCR

Optical character recognition
Apache-2.0 License - Copyright (c) Google
github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Pandoc

Document format conversion
GPL-2.0 License - Copyright (c) John MacFarlane
pandoc.org

Pillow

Image processing
HPND License - Copyright (c) Jeffrey A. Clark and contributors
python-pillow.org

extract-msg

Outlook MSG file parsing
GPL-3.0 License
github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor

markdown-it-py

Markdown parsing
MIT License
github.com/executablebooks/markdown-it-py

Network Access

Others on your local network can access this tool at:
http://172.18.0.4:5050

(This address may change if your network assigns a new IP)

Legal Markdown Converter

This application
Copyright (c) 2025 Austin Brister. All rights reserved.

Disclaimer

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied. This is experimental code that may not properly convert all files or filetypes, and the lack of debugging and error messages means it likely will not make errors and omissions obvious to the end user. In addition, this tool is intended for convenient document conversion purposes only to be used in temporary AI/LLM uses, and should not be used for any backup or file retention purposes.

The author(s) and contributors make no representations or warranties regarding:

The accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any conversions
The fitness of this software for any particular purpose
The preservation of document formatting, content, or structure
The security or confidentiality of any documents processed

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In no event shall the author(s), contributors, or McGinnis Lochridge LLP be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, loss of data, business interruption, or any other commercial damages or losses) arising out of or in connection with the use or inability to use this software.

By using this software, you acknowledge that you have read this disclaimer and agree to assume all risks associated with its use. You are solely responsible for verifying the accuracy of any converted documents.

This tool is not a substitute for professional document review.