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Convert PDF to Markdown
PDF to Markdown turns a document into clean Markdown, keeping the headings, lists and tables it already had. It is the quickest way to get a PDF into notes, a wiki, a static site or a prompt.
Pages that are scans have no text to read, so those are recognised with OCR first and folded into the same file. The result downloads as a single .md.
Runs on the server. Files up to 50 MB are processed and deleted in the same request.
How to convert a PDF to Markdown
Add a PDF
Drop in one file or several, up to 50 MB each.
Leave OCR on for scans
Pages with real text are converted directly. Pages that are images are read with OCR, so a mixed document comes back complete.
Download the Markdown
One file downloads as .md. Several arrive together as a zip.
Questions
- What does the Markdown keep?
- Headings, paragraphs, lists and tables are carried across as Markdown. Visual styling such as fonts, colours and exact spacing is not, which is the point of Markdown.
- Does it work on scanned PDFs?
- Yes. A page with no text layer is read with OCR and its text is folded into the document in the right place. Recognised pages come back as plain paragraphs, because a scan has no structure to recover.
- Why would I want Markdown instead of Word?
- Markdown is plain text, so it goes straight into a repository, a note-taking app, a static site generator or a language model without carrying formatting baggage.
- Is my file uploaded?
- Yes, this tool needs the server. The file is converted and deleted within the same request, and nothing is retained.