MarkItDown v0.1.8 silently fails on scanned files across 14 test cases
Tool · Dev.to · stat: v0.1.8 MarkItDown v0.1.8, Microsoft's file-to-markdown converter, fails silently with an exit code of zero when processing scanned documents without text layers. Developer…
Tool · Dev.to · stat: v0.1.8
MarkItDown v0.1.8, Microsoft's file-to-markdown converter, fails silently with an exit code of zero when processing scanned documents without text layers. Developer testing reveals the tool successfully converts structured text and tables across formats like DOCX and XLSX, but requires explicit output length validation to catch empty outputs across 14 local fixture files.
Silent document conversion failures will quietly break downstream LLM pipelines. Founders building document-processing pipelines must add explicit length validation to prevent empty files from silently breaking downstream RAG systems.
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