diff --git a/src/FSharp.Formatting.Literate/Literate.fs b/src/FSharp.Formatting.Literate/Literate.fs
index 88fe78194..d5a86de25 100644
--- a/src/FSharp.Formatting.Literate/Literate.fs
+++ b/src/FSharp.Formatting.Literate/Literate.fs
@@ -223,6 +223,45 @@ type Literate private () =
         |> Transformations.formatCodeSnippets filePath ctx
         |> Transformations.evaluateCodeSnippets ctx
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Parse pynb string as literate document
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="content"></param>
+    /// <param name="path">optional file path for debugging purposes</param>
+    /// <param name="definedSymbols"></param>
+    /// <param name="references"></param>
+    /// <param name="parseOptions">Defaults to MarkdownParseOptions.AllowYamlFrontMatter</param>
+    /// <param name="rootInputFolder"></param>
+    /// <param name="onError"></param>
+    static member ParsePynbString
+        (
+            content,
+            ?path,
+            ?definedSymbols,
+            ?references,
+            ?parseOptions,
+            ?rootInputFolder,
+            ?onError
+        ) =
+        let onError = defaultArg onError ignore
+        let ctx = parsingContext None None definedSymbols onError
+
+        let filePath =
+            match path with
+            | Some s -> s
+            | None ->
+                match rootInputFolder with
+                | None -> "C:\\script.fsx"
+                | Some r -> Path.Combine(r, "script.fsx")
+        
+        let content = ParsePynb.pynbStringToFsx content
+        
+        ParseScript(parseOptions, ctx)
+            .ParseAndCheckScriptFile(filePath, content, rootInputFolder, onError)
+        |> Transformations.generateReferences references
+        |> Transformations.formatCodeSnippets filePath ctx
+        |> Transformations.evaluateCodeSnippets ctx
+
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     // Simple writing functions
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -542,11 +581,11 @@ type Literate private () =
             //||| MarkdownParseOptions.ParseNonCodeAsOther
             | _ -> parseOptions
 
-        let md = ParsePynb.pynbToMarkdown input
+        let fsx = ParsePynb.pynbToFsx input
 
         let doc =
-            Literate.ParseMarkdownString(
-                md,
+            Literate.ParseScriptString(
+                fsx,
                 ?fscOptions = fscOptions,
                 ?references = references,
                 parseOptions = parseOptions,
diff --git a/src/FSharp.Formatting.Literate/ParsePynb.fs b/src/FSharp.Formatting.Literate/ParsePynb.fs
index c2f14511f..a83c23f3b 100644
--- a/src/FSharp.Formatting.Literate/ParsePynb.fs
+++ b/src/FSharp.Formatting.Literate/ParsePynb.fs
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ module internal ParsePynb =
                 | Some outputs ->
                     let outputsString = outputs |> String.concat "\n"
                     sprintf $"{codeBlock}\n{outputsString}"
+        member this.ToFsx() =
+            match this with
+            | Markdown source -> $"(**\n{source}\n*)"
+            | Code code when code.lang = "fsharp" ->
+                let codeBlock = addLineEnd code.source
+
+                match code.outputs with
+                | None -> codeBlock
+                | Some outputs ->
+                    let outputsString = outputs |> String.concat "\n"
+                    sprintf $"{codeBlock}\n(**\n{outputsString}\n*)"
+            | Code _ ->
+                $"(**\n{this.ToMarkdown()}\n*)" 
 
     module Output =
         let (|TextHtml|_|) (x: JsonElement) =
@@ -147,6 +160,17 @@ module internal ParsePynb =
     let pynbToMarkdown ipynbFile =
         ipynbFile |> File.ReadAllText |> pynbStringToMarkdown
 
+
+    let pynbStringToFsx (ipynb: string) =
+        let json = JsonDocument.Parse(ipynb)
+
+        json.RootElement.GetProperty("cells").EnumerateArray()
+        |> Seq.map (parseCell >> (fun x -> x.ToFsx()))
+        |> String.concat "\n"
+
+    let pynbToFsx ipynbFile =
+        ipynbFile |> File.ReadAllText |> pynbStringToFsx
+
     let parseFrontMatter ipynbFile =
         let json = JsonDocument.Parse(ipynbFile |> File.ReadAllText)
 
diff --git a/tests/FSharp.Literate.Tests/LiterateTests.fs b/tests/FSharp.Literate.Tests/LiterateTests.fs
index 7dc34c16c..a8e3a8fa8 100644
--- a/tests/FSharp.Literate.Tests/LiterateTests.fs
+++ b/tests/FSharp.Literate.Tests/LiterateTests.fs
@@ -1467,6 +1467,80 @@ let add a b = a + b
 
     (mdOut.Trim()) |> shouldEqual (mdIn.Trim())
 
+[<Test>]
+let ``Notebook is converted to script exactly right`` () =
+    let doc =
+        Literate.ParsePynbString(
+                    """
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "metadata": {
+    "dotnet_interactive": {
+     "language": "fsharp"
+    },
+    "polyglot_notebook": {
+     "kernelName": "fsharp"
+    }
+   },
+   "execution_count": null, "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "let hello = 1\n",
+    "\n",
+    "let goodbye = 2\n"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": ".NET (F#)",
+   "language": "F#",
+   "name": ".net-fsharp"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "file_extension": ".fs",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-fsharp",
+   "name": "polyglot-notebook",
+   "pygments_lexer": "fsharp"
+  },
+  "polyglot_notebook": {
+   "kernelInfo": {
+    "defaultKernelName": "fsharp",
+    "items": [
+     {
+      "aliases": [],
+      "languageName": "fsharp",
+      "name": "fsharp"
+     }
+    ]
+   }
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 2
+}""",
+            parseOptions =
+                (MarkdownParseOptions.ParseCodeAsOther
+                 ||| MarkdownParseOptions.ParseNonCodeAsOther)
+        )
+
+    let fsx = Literate.ToFsx(doc)
+    printfn "----"
+    printfn "%s" fsx
+    printfn "----"
+
+    let fsx2 = fsx.Replace("\r\n", "\n").Replace("\n", "!")
+
+    let expected =
+            """let hello = 1
+
+let goodbye = 2"""
+
+    let expected2 = expected.Replace("\r\n", "\n").Replace("\n", "!")
+
+    fsx2 |> shouldEqual expected2
+
 [<Test>]
 let ``Script output is exactly right`` () =
     let md =