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When the source document is not a file on disk (e.g., downloaded from a network, read from a database, or received as an upload), you can pass a binary stream directly to the MarkdownConverter constructor.
The stream is copied internally, so you may close it immediately after creating the converter.
from groupdocs.markdown import MarkdownConverter
def load_from_stream():
"""Load a document from a binary stream and convert to Markdown."""
# Step 1: Open the document file as a binary stream
with open("business-plan.docx", "rb") as stream:
# Step 2: Create a converter from the stream
with MarkdownConverter(stream) as converter:
# Step 3: Convert and save the Markdown output
converter.convert("load-stream-basic.md")
if __name__ == "__main__":
load_from_stream()
business-plan.docx is sample file used in this example. Click here to download it.
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"""Load a document from a stream with explicit format specification."""
# Step 1: Open the file as a binary stream
with open("document", "rb") as stream:
# Step 2: Specify the file format explicitly (no auto-detection)
load_options = LoadOptions(FileFormat.DOCX)
# Step 3: Create a converter from the stream with load options
with MarkdownConverter(stream, load_options=load_options) as converter:
# Step 4: Convert and save the Markdown output
converter.convert("load-stream-with-options.md")
if __name__ == "__main__":
import shutil
shutil.copy("business-plan.docx", "document") # create file without extension
load_from_stream_with_options()
