Disable pandoc convert the image’s alt text to a paragraph when docx to markdown

I have a markdown document containing remote image links named input.md:

Using Pandoc to convert documents

![this is the image caption](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sk5Pr.png)

Pandoc is really *awesome*!

And with the command below to convert it to docx:

pandoc input.md -o output.docx

After getting output.docx, then converted it to markdown again:

pandoc output.docx --extract-media=. -t commonmark-raw_html -o output.md

Here the option ommonmark-raw_html was applied to disable the image size’s tag, and the converted content of output.md:

Using Pandoc to convert documents

![this is the image caption](./media/rId20.png)

this is the image caption

Pandoc is really *awesome*!

You can see the image’s alt text this is the image caption was displayed twice. The first one was the actual image’s alt text, and second was a paragraph below. But I would like to remove the paragraph of the image’s alt text, which was redundant.

Why did I converted markdown twice here? Because I wanted to replace the remote image link with the local image link in markdown.

It would be great if you have any suggestion to resolve the issue. Thanks in advance!

>Solution :

The easiest way is possibly to convert directly to Markdown while using the --extract-media option:

pandoc input.md --extract-media=media -t commonmark -o output.md

That option can be used with any input format, it’s just not as common. But this is one of the use-cases where it makes sense.