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MDWord by Jair Lima

WYSIWYG Markdown editor with a WordPad-inspired interface.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

MDWord by Jair Lima is a Markdown editor, available on Windows.

Features described in its GitHub repository and in its Winget manifest: Markdown support, text recognition (OCR), data import and export.

File formats mentioned: PDF and DOCX.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “WYSIWYG Markdown editor with a WordPad-inspired interface” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “WYSIWYG Markdown editor with a WordPad-inspired interface” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “It supports opening, editing, saving, importing and exporting .md files with full WYSIWYG rendering, formatted paste of Markdown content, DOCX/PDF import and export, and scanned PDF OCR.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Pode usar OCR em PDF escaneado, automaticamente quando necessario ou por comando explicito.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of MDWord by Jair Lima is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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