PDF-Markdown-muunnin

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.

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.

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.

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.