--- title: "ODT to Markdown" description: "Drop a LibreOffice .odt and get clean Markdown for a wiki, a README or a docs site. Headings, lists, links, tables and emphasis are kept; fonts and layout are not. Nothing is uploaded." url: https://findutils.com/convert/odt-to-markdown/ category: convert --- # ODT to Markdown Drop a LibreOffice .odt and get clean Markdown for a wiki, a README or a docs site. Headings, lists, links, tables and emphasis are kept; fonts and layout are not. Nothing is uploaded. **Use this tool:** [ODT to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/odt-to-markdown/) ## Programmatic access - Browser-only: this tool works on a file, the DOM, or a browser API and has no REST or MCP id. ## Why Use Our ODT to Markdown Converter? LibreOffice drafts, meeting notes and handbooks live in .odt because that is where they were written. READMEs, wikis, docs sites and static pages want Markdown. The manual path is an export dance in LibreOffice followed by cleanup, or a Pandoc install for a one-off. This page unpacks the .odt in the tab, reads the document body, and writes Markdown that keeps the structure a reader cares about — headings, paragraphs, lists, links, tables, bold and italic — and drops the styling a Markdown file cannot hold anyway. It is the LibreOffice twin of the DOCX to Markdown page, built on the same Markdown writer. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What parts of the document are kept, and what is lost? Kept: headings with an outline level and the Title style, paragraphs, bold, italic and strikethrough from the document's styles, hyperlinks, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, line breaks, and footnotes as bracketed text. Lost: underline, fonts, colours, font sizes, alignment, columns, page breaks, headers, footers, comments, tracked-change records and images. Markdown has no way to hold those, so they are dropped rather than approximated. ### Why is my .ods or .odp refused? The page reads text documents only. A spreadsheet or a presentation is a different OpenDocument kind with a different body, and its cells or slides do not map to a Markdown document. Open it in LibreOffice and export the text as an .odt, or use a spreadsheet converter for the data. ### The file is password-protected. Why is it refused? A password-protected .odt records encryption in its manifest and stores content.xml encrypted, so it cannot be read without the password, and this page does not ask for one. Remove the password in LibreOffice (File, Properties, Security, or Save As without a password) and drop the unprotected file. ### What happens to images? They are left out and the count is shown; this page keeps text only. If the images matter, save the same document as .docx in LibreOffice and use the DOCX to Markdown page, which can embed images as data URLs. Either way, the text around the image is unaffected. ### Do tables convert? Yes, to pipe tables with a header row taken from the table's header rows. Merged cells are flattened and counted in the notes, and cells with several paragraphs flatten to one line each, because a Markdown table cannot hold them. Turn GFM tables off to get one bullet per row instead, for a target that has no table syntax. ### Is my document uploaded? No. The .odt is unpacked and converted in your browser. Nothing about the document is sent to FindUtils or to any other server, and you can confirm that in the network panel while converting. ### What are the conversion notes? A list of document parts the converter dropped or flattened: comments, tables of contents and indexes, and merged table cells. The headings an index pointed at are still in the text; the notes tell you where to look if something reads as flatter than the original. ### Why did a bold line not become a heading? Because the document says it is a paragraph. The converter reads Writer's outline levels and the Title style, not appearance: a Heading 2 paragraph becomes ##, a line that is merely bold and 18 pt stays a bold paragraph. Apply the Heading styles in Writer, or add the # characters in the editor on the right before you download. ### Does it read .fodt, .ott or OpenOffice files? An .ott template and a master document are accepted, since they are the same package kind. A flat XML .fodt is not a zip and is refused; save it as .odt first. Files from OpenOffice and other OpenDocument editors work the same way, because the format is the same. ### Can I go the other way, from Markdown to LibreOffice? Yes, through Word format. The Markdown to Word converter on FindUtils builds a .docx from Markdown, and LibreOffice opens and saves that as .odt. For a Word file to Markdown, use the DOCX to Markdown twin of this page. ## Related Tools - [DOCX to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-markdown/) - [Markdown to Word](https://findutils.com/convert/markdown-to-word/) - [HTML to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/html-to-markdown/) - [Markdown Previewer](https://findutils.com/developers/markdown-previewer/) - [Markdown to PDF](https://findutils.com/convert/markdown-to-pdf/) - [Markdown Table Generator](https://findutils.com/text/markdown-table-generator/) - [DOCX to HTML](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-html/)