PDF to Markdown
Turn a document into clean Markdown for notes or an AI pipeline.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
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Drop your PDF here
or choose it from your files
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Before you start
- Feeding an AI tool? One continuous document gives clean text without page breaks.
- Need to cite page numbers later? Mark where each page starts.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Run this tool and the next one back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
Add your file
Add the PDF you want as Markdown — a report you are taking notes from, or a document you are about to feed to a language model.
Set it up the way you want
Choose whether to keep the page markers. Keep them if a model will read this and you want its answers to cite a page.
Download the result
Download the Markdown file. Headings are headings, lists are lists, and paragraphs have not been broken at every line.
Questions about PDF to Markdown
- Why Markdown rather than plain text?
- Because structure survives. Plain text loses the difference between a heading and a sentence, and a language model reading it has to guess where sections begin. Markdown keeps that structure in a form both people and models read, at almost no size cost.
- What are the page markers for?
- Traceability. When a model answers from a 200-page document, the only useful follow-up is "where does it say that", and a page marker in the text is what lets the answer point somewhere. Turn them off when the file is for reading rather than for a pipeline.
- My tables came out badly.
- A complex table is where Markdown gives up: it has no merged cells and no nesting, so anything beyond a plain grid flattens. If the tables are the point, use PDF to Excel or PDF to CSV, which keep rows and columns as data.