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PDF to Markdown

Turn a PDF back into structured Markdown, with headings, paragraphs, lists and detected tables, instead of the wall of undifferentiated text a plain extraction gives you. Useful when you need to edit, version or publish content that only exists as a PDF. It is free, needs no account, and adds no watermark to your result.

Built for: pdf to markdown

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Drop PDF files hereMD output · up to 100 files

Included in this tool

Heading reconstructionParagraphs and listsDetected tablesMarkdown download

When you need this

What people use it for.

Moving documentation out of PDF and into a wiki, static site or repository

Getting a report into a format you can track in version control

Reusing content from a PDF without retyping the structure by hand

How it works

What happens to your file.

Text is extracted with position and font-size information, and heading levels, paragraph breaks, list items and table structures are inferred from that layout before being written as Markdown.

Where it stops: Structure is inferred from visual layout, not from tags, so complex multi-column pages and irregular tables need manual tidying afterwards.

What this tool includes

Everything you need, without a paywall.

Heading reconstruction

Paragraphs and lists

Detected tables

Markdown download

Questions

Common questions.

How accurate is the heading detection?

It works from relative font sizes and positions, so documents with a consistent visual hierarchy convert well. Documents that style headings inconsistently need review.

Do tables survive the conversion?

Simple grid tables usually convert into Markdown tables. Merged cells and nested layouts often need manual repair.

What about scanned PDFs?

A scan is images, not text, so run PDF OCR first to create a searchable layer, then convert.

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