Courtesy @phowat, created a branch in the repo to make some changes and
merge quickly.
Closes#1486.
* **Fixes issue where tables from markdown documents were being treated
as text** Problem: Tables from markdown documents were being treated as
text, and not being extracted as tables. Solution: Enable the `tables`
extension when instantiating the `python-markdown` object. Importance:
This will allow users to extract structured data from tables in markdown
documents.
#### Testing:
On `main` run the following (run `git checkout fix/md-tables --
example-docs/simple-table.md` first to grab the example table from this
branch)
```python
from unstructured.partition.md import partition_md
elements = partition_md("example-docs/simple-table.md")
print(elements[0].category)
```
Output should be `UncategorizedText`. Then run the same code on this
branch and observe the output is `Table`.
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Co-authored-by: cragwolfe <crag@unstructured.io>
