PDF to Markdown

Reconstruct headings, lists and paragraphs as clean Markdown.

Drop a PDF here or click to select

Your file never leaves your device · No signup · No daily limit

Up to 100 MB per file

How it works

Drop a text-based PDF (articles, docs, reports).
The layout is analyzed page by page: font sizes become headings, bullet and numbered lines become lists, hyphenated line breaks are repaired.
Review the Markdown in the preview, toggle page separators on or off.
Copy it to the clipboard or download the .md file.

What people use it for

Moving PDF documentation into a wiki, Obsidian, or a static-site repo.
Preparing clean, structured text from PDFs for LLM pipelines and RAG ingestion.
Extracting an article's structure without retyping the headings and lists.

Good to know

Conversion is heuristic, not AI: headings are inferred from relative font size, so decorative layouts can misclassify a line. The structure is right far more often than not, but skim the output.
Tables are detected conservatively (only clearly aligned columns become pipe tables); complex tables come out as plain lines rather than wrong tables.
Scanned PDFs have no text layer to read. Run PDF OCR first.

Frequently asked questions

Does this use an AI model?

No, it is deterministic layout analysis (font sizes, positions, spacing), which means identical input always gives identical output, instantly, and nothing is sent to any model provider.

How are multi-column PDFs handled?

Lines are read in visual order; standard single-column documents convert cleanly, while complex multi-column magazine layouts may interleave. Simpler layouts give better Markdown.

Is the PDF uploaded?

No. Text extraction and the Markdown reconstruction run entirely in your browser.

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