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PDF to Markdown Converter

Extract the text from a PDF and get it as Markdown, entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.

How to use the PDF to Markdown

  1. 01

    Click Choose PDF and pick a file from your device.

  2. 02

    Wait a moment while the text is extracted in your browser.

  3. 03

    Copy the Markdown or download it as a .md file.

What it does

A PDF to Markdown converter that extracts the text layer of a PDF in your browser and returns it as clean, Markdown-ready text, page by page.

It is the fast way to get the words out of a PDF and into something editable, a notes app, a docs site, a chat message, or a repository, without retyping or wrestling with a PDF editor.

Because it runs locally with pdf.js, it is fast and private, and the file never leaves your device, which makes it safe for confidential documents.

How the conversion works

It runs locally with pdf.js, reading the document's existing text layer directly and returning it as text with its line breaks intact. Nothing is retyped and nothing is guessed.

Formatting notes

The formatting it can recover is deliberately simple, because PDFs store positioned text rather than document structure. Headings and styling cannot be reconstructed reliably, so the tool focuses on extracting the text and its line breaks cleanly.

Which PDFs work, and which don't

It works well for text-based PDFs such as reports, articles, ebooks and exports, where the document carries a real text layer that can be read directly.

It does not work on scanned documents, which are images of pages with no text layer. Reading those would require OCR (optical character recognition), which this tool does not perform.

Frequently asked questions

Is my PDF uploaded to a server?

No. The PDF is read and parsed entirely in your browser using pdf.js, so the file never leaves your device. That makes it safe for confidential documents.

Can it read scanned PDFs?

No. It extracts the text layer that a PDF carries. Scanned documents are images without a text layer, so they would need OCR, which this tool does not perform.

Why is the formatting simple?

PDFs store positioned text, not document structure, so headings and styling cannot be recovered reliably. The tool focuses on extracting the text and its line breaks cleanly.

Which PDFs work best?

Text-based PDFs such as reports, articles, ebooks and exports, where the document has a real text layer rather than scanned page images.

What is OCR and does this use it?

OCR reads text from images of pages. This tool does not perform OCR; it only extracts text that the PDF already stores as a text layer.

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