PDF TO
MARKDOWN
Convert PDF documents to clean Markdown text. Runs entirely in your browser — your file never leaves your device.
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WHAT GETS EXTRACTED
STRUCTURE
- Large text → # Headings
- Medium text → ## Subheadings
- Body text → Paragraphs
NOT SUPPORTED
- Scanned/image-only PDFs (no OCR)
- Tables and multi-column layouts
- Embedded images
WHY CONVERT PDF TO MARKDOWN?
PDFs are built for fixed-layout printing, not for editing or machine reading. Markdown is plain text you can version in Git, edit in any editor, and feed directly into an LLM or static site generator without the overhead of a PDF parser at read time.
COMMON REASONS TO CONVERT
- Turning a PDF report or paper into editable notes
- Feeding PDF content into an LLM or RAG pipeline as clean context
- Extracting text from a PDF for a documentation rewrite
- Archiving a PDF's content as plain, diffable text
HOW THE CONVERSION WORKS
The tool reads every text item in the PDF along with its font size, then compares each line's font size to the most common font size in the document — that most-common size is treated as body text. Lines with noticeably larger fonts become headings; everything else is joined into paragraphs. This is a best-effort heuristic, not true structural extraction — PDFs don't store semantic structure, only positioned text and fonts.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
DOES THIS HANDLE SCANNED PDFS?
No. This tool reads text embedded in the PDF itself. A scanned document with no embedded text layer is just an image to this tool — there's no OCR step. If your PDF was created by printing or exporting from a word processor, it will have a text layer and will work.
DOES IT PRESERVE TABLES?
Not reliably. PDF tables are just positioned text with no underlying table structure, so this tool extracts the text but doesn't reconstruct rows and columns. For tabular PDF data, expect the cell text to come through as plain lines that need manual reformatting.
IS MY FILE UPLOADED ANYWHERE?
No. The entire conversion happens in your browser using PDF.js. Your file is never sent to a server — it's read and processed locally on your device.