Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown? (opens in new tab)

I took over a project that was built by an overseas team. They set up a data ingestion process. They have a step in the ingestion where they use Libre Office (in headless mode) to convert Microsoft Word documents to PDFs. Later we convert all PDFs to Markdown. They felt that it was best to convert everything to a PDF, and then convert all of the PDFs to Markdown.