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What PDF to Markdown does
PDF to Markdown reconstructs a PDF as Markdown text, turning larger text into headings and bold/italic runs into emphasis, ready to copy or download as .md.
Markdown is the format LLMs, wikis, static-site generators and note apps like best: structured but plain. PDF to Markdown gets your document into that shape without a round trip through Word — headings as # and ##, emphasis as **bold** and *italic*, paragraphs as paragraphs.
It uses the same reconstruction as PDF to Word, reading the PDF with pdf.js and inferring structure from text position and font names, then renders that as Markdown instead of a .docx. The result appears in a preview you can copy straight out, and downloads as a .md file.
How to use PDF to Markdown
Upload a PDF
Drop in a text-based PDF. Scanned PDFs have no text layer — OCR them first.
Convert
Click Convert to Markdown. Every page is read and the Markdown appears in a preview.
Copy or download
Copy the Markdown to your clipboard, or take the .md file that downloads automatically.
PDF to Markdown: details and limits
Headings and emphasis are inferred, not read from tags a PDF doesn’t have: text larger than the body becomes a heading, and font names decide bold and italic. It is a best guess — quick to check, ideal for feeding documents to an LLM.
Tables, hyperlinks, images, footnotes and exact layout are not reconstructed. Tables in particular flatten to plain text, because a PDF has no table structure to recover.
A scanned PDF has no text layer, so the tool stops and points you to OCR PDF, and reports any pages that had no selectable text. Markdown special characters in the text are escaped so they render as written.