PDF to Markdown
PDF to Markdown — Convert Any PDF Free
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Upload a PDF and get clean Markdown in seconds. Headings, lists, tables preserved. Runs entirely in your browser — no upload to servers.
How it works: We use Mozilla's pdf.js library to parse the PDF directly in your browser. The file never leaves your device — it's all client-side. We extract the text, detect headings by font size, and output clean Markdown. Works on text-based PDFs (not scanned images).
Upload a PDF and get clean Markdown in seconds. Headings, lists, tables preserved. Runs entirely in your browser — no upload to servers.
How it works
Paste your URL or input
Copy the URL or content you want to process and paste it into the input above.
Click the action button
We fetch, parse, or generate the output in your browser or via our fast API.
Download or copy the result
Save the result as PDF, Markdown, MP4, or your chosen format. Done.
How do I convert a PDF to Markdown?
Upload your PDF file using the upload button (or drag and drop). The tool processes the PDF entirely in your browser — extracts text, identifies headings and lists, formats as Markdown. Copy the output or download as a .md file. The PDF never leaves your device.
Does this work on scanned PDFs?
For text-based PDFs (most modern documents, exports from Word/Google Docs/Word/Pages), yes — we extract the text directly. For image-only scanned PDFs (where text is part of the image), use the OCR tool instead.
Why convert PDF to Markdown
Four common reasons. Editable content. PDFs are read-only by design. Markdown is plain text and editable everywhere — Notion, Obsidian, Git repos, text editors. Smaller file size. A 5MB PDF can become a 200KB Markdown file. Easier to email, version control, search. Web publishing. Markdown is the source format for blogs, docs sites, knowledge bases. Convert PDFs into Markdown to republish content. AI workflows. LLMs consume Markdown easily. Convert PDFs into clean Markdown for AI summarization, analysis, or training data.
How we convert PDFs to Markdown
PDFs are stored as a mix of text, fonts, images, and layout instructions. Extracting the text in correct reading order with proper heading levels is non-trivial. We use pdf.js (Mozilla's PDF parser) running in WebAssembly inside your browser. It extracts text blocks, identifies font sizes (which correlate with headings), preserves list structure, and reconstructs tables from the layout grid. Limitations: complex multi-column layouts can sometimes get jumbled. PDFs with embedded scanned images need OCR (use the OCR tool). PDFs with non-standard fonts may have character substitutions.
Privacy and how we handle your data
We don't upload your PDF to any server. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using pdf.js compiled to WebAssembly. Your file never leaves your device. No analytics on file content. No file metadata stored. The PDF is processed locally, the Markdown output is generated locally, you copy or download it locally.
What file size PDFs work?
Tested with PDFs up to 50MB. Larger PDFs may exceed browser memory limits (most browsers cap at 2-4GB per tab, so even very large PDFs work, just slowly).
Does it preserve tables?
Yes — we identify table cells from the PDF's positioning grid and format them as Markdown tables. Complex merged-cell tables may not render perfectly.