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markitdown-ocr: PPTX converter emits literal \n sequences in Markdown output #2010
Description
PptxConverterWithOCR uses "\\n" instead of "\n" in multiple output paths.
As a result, converted PPTX files contain literal backslash-n sequences rather
than Markdown line breaks.
The OCR PPTX tests currently encode this malformed output as expected behavior.
Additionally, the optional LLM caption path imports ._llm_caption, but the
module exists in markitdown.converters, not in markitdown_ocr.
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afourney commentedon Sep 30, 2026
Thank you for reporting both the newline problem and the caption-import issue.
#2506, included in v0.1.8, replaced the duplicated PPTX OCR conversion code with the core presentation pipeline. This removes the literal backslash-n formatting paths and uses the core caption implementation. The relevant formatting and caption regressions pass against v0.1.8.
Please upgrade both
markitdownto0.1.8andmarkitdown-ocrto0.1.1. Closing as fixed. Please reopen this issue if the problem still occurs with those versions, and include a reproduction so we can investigate.