@mdgate/doc 0.6.8 → 0.6.10

package/README.md

@@ -1,26 +1,190 @@
 # @mdgate/doc
 
-Convert legacy binary Word documents to Markdown. Outputs GitHub-Flavored Markdown. Works in Node, Edge, and
-browsers. No native addons.
+**Convert legacy Word `.doc` files to Markdown in TypeScript.**
 
-Handles: `.doc`, `.dot` (binary Word)
+[`@mdgate/doc`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/doc) reads binary Word documents (`.doc`, `.dot`) directly in JavaScript and converts them into GitHub-Flavored Markdown, without Python, native addons, WASM, or Microsoft Word.
 
-## Usage
+Works in **Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, Edge runtimes, and browsers**.
+
+```bash
+npm install @mdgate/doc
+```
+
+```ts
+import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/doc';
+
+const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+```
+
+`bytes` is a `Uint8Array`, so the document can come from a file upload, object storage, an HTTP request, a browser file picker, or anywhere else your application gets bytes.
+
+---
+
+## Why [`@mdgate/doc`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/doc)
+
+Old Word files are still everywhere: attachments from 2004, government forms, mail archives.
+
+Most JavaScript stacks have a DOCX parser and nothing for binary Word. [`@mdgate/doc`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/doc) reads the OLE compound file in the same runtime as your application:
+
+* **Pure TypeScript**
+* **DOC → Markdown locally**
+* **No Python runtime**
+* **No native addons**
+* **No WASM runtime**
+* **Zero third-party runtime dependencies**
+* **Works with raw `Uint8Array` input**
+* **Detects binary Word from OLE streams, not only the filename**
+
+Use it when an agent or ingestion pipeline has to read the Word format people actually sent, not only `.docx`.
+
+---
+
+## What it extracts
+
+[`@mdgate/doc`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/doc) parses the binary Word document stream and rebuilds a shared document model.
+
+The converter handles Word 97-2003 concerns including:
+
+* paragraphs and heading styles
+* bold, italic, and strikethrough
+* lists
+* tables
+* basic character encoding
+* encrypted document detection
+
+The output is Markdown that can be searched, indexed, chunked, cached, or passed directly to an AI agent.
+
+OOXML Word files (`.docx`) are a different format. Use [`@mdgate/docx`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/docx) for those.
+
+---
+
+## Node.js
 
 ```ts
+import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/doc';
 
+const bytes = new Uint8Array(await readFile('memo.doc'));
 const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+
+console.log(markdown);
 ```
 
-Compose with other converters:
+---
+
+## Browser
+
+```ts
+import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/doc';
+
+const file = input.files![0];
+const bytes = new Uint8Array(await file.arrayBuffer());
+
+const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+```
+
+Conversion can happen locally without uploading the document to a parsing service.
+
+---
+
+## Cloudflare Workers and Edge runtimes
+
+```ts
+import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/doc';
+
+export default {
+  async fetch(request: Request) {
+    const bytes = new Uint8Array(await request.arrayBuffer());
+    const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+
+    return new Response(markdown, {
+      headers: {
+        'content-type': 'text/markdown; charset=utf-8',
+      },
+    });
+  },
+};
+```
+
+```text
+upload DOC
+↓
+Cloudflare Worker
+↓
+@mdgate/doc
+↓
+Markdown
+↓
+agent / search / index / storage
+```
+
+---
+
+## Format detection
+
+You do not need to trust the file extension.
+
+[`@mdgate/doc`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/doc) recognizes binary Word from OLE compound-file streams.
+
+```ts
+const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+```
+
+A path can still be supplied as a format hint when [`@mdgate/doc`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/doc) is used through [`@mdgate/converters`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/converters) or a reader composed with [`@mdgate/core`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/core), but the path is never used to read a file from disk.
+
+Some files named `.doc` are actually RTF. Those belong to [`@mdgate/rtf`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/rtf).
+
+---
+
+## Encrypted documents
+
+Encrypted or password-protected Word files are reported as encrypted rather than returning misleading partial output.
+
+---
+
+## Compose it with other file readers
+
+[`@mdgate/doc`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/doc) implements the converter interface from [`@mdgate/core`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/core).
 
 ```ts
 import { create } from '@mdgate/core';
 import { doc } from '@mdgate/doc';
+import { docx } from '@mdgate/docx';
+
+const read = create([
+  doc(),
+  docx(),
+]);
+
+const markdown = await read(bytes);
+```
+
+The application still uses one reading interface while each format remains independently installable.
+
+---
+
+## Need more than Word?
 
-const convert = create([doc()]);
+If your application needs to read many different file types, use the complete converter set:
+
+```bash
+npm install @mdgate/converters
+```
+
+```ts
+import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/converters';
+
+const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes, {
+  path: filename,
+});
 ```
 
-Part of [mdgate converters](https://github.com/mdgate/converters); install
-`@mdgate/converters` for every format at once.
+[`@mdgate/doc`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/doc) is one of the single-format packages in the open-source [`mdgate/converters`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters) project.
+
+For AI agents, the same converter architecture can be used to extend `read_file` from text files to real-world document formats.
+
+---
+
+## License
+
+MIT

package/package.json

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
   "name": "@mdgate/doc",
-  "version": "0.6.8",
+  "version": "0.6.10",
   "description": "mdgate legacy Word converter (binary .doc)",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",
-  "homepage": "https://demo.mdgate.dev",
+  "homepage": "https://convert.mdgate.dev",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "git+https://github.com/mdgate/converters.git",
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
     "prepublishOnly": "bun run build"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@mdgate/containers": "0.6.8",
-    "@mdgate/core": "0.6.8",
-    "@mdgate/document": "0.6.8",
-    "@mdgate/office-common": "0.6.8",
-    "@mdgate/utils": "0.6.8"
+    "@mdgate/containers": "0.6.10",
+    "@mdgate/core": "0.6.10",
+    "@mdgate/document": "0.6.10",
+    "@mdgate/office-common": "0.6.10",
+    "@mdgate/utils": "0.6.10"
   },
   "publishConfig": {
     "access": "public"