> However, since MarkItDown is a Python program, it might be challenging for non-technical users to use.<p>Am I alone in thinking it is perfectly acceptable to ask a non-technical user to open a command line and type something? It's not rocket science. You just follow simple directions. Click start, search for powershell, type this into the Window that pops up, hit enter. [0] If you can make boxed mac and cheese, you can type a command into a command prompt.<p>It was not that long ago that even for Windows software you were expected to occasionally visit the DOS prompt (type d:\, type setup.exe was a pretty common pattern in instruction manuals).<p>[0] Of course, the directions currently on the MarkItDown github page are pretty inadequate, but I'm talking about the general case.
It used to be actually easy to run Python — and Perl, REXX, Tcl, Ruby, and a bunch of other languages — with WSH in MSIE. Those were, in that small way, good times.