Headings, lists and paragraphs from the PDF in an .md file ready to edit. Free, unlimited, and no file ever gets uploaded to a server.
100% private: everything runs on your computer, your files never leave your device.
PDF to Markdown pulls the text out of a PDF and writes it as a .md file, on your own computer. Headings and bullet lists are recognised on the way out, so what you get is not a wall of lines but something with structure, ready to paste into a notes app, a wiki or a repository.
The structure is worked out from the type sizes on the page. OléPDF measures every line, takes the middle size as the body text, and treats anything noticeably bigger as a heading. Lines that start with a bullet character become list items.
It reads the text layer of the document. A PDF made of scans has no text layer, so there is nothing to convert: run it through OCR PDF first and then come back here.
The rules are simple on purpose, which makes the output predictable. This is exactly what they are.
The PDF is opened and its text read inside your browser tab. The document is never uploaded, no page is sent anywhere to be analysed, and no third-party service is involved.
That matters for the documents people usually want as Markdown: research, internal documentation, contracts being turned into notes. None of it reaches a server.
It also means the conversion works with no connection at all once the page has loaded, and that a hundred-page document is limited by your machine rather than by an upload queue.
Yes. Converting one PDF at a time is free and unlimited, with no account. Converting several in a single run requires the 7-Day Pass or Pro.
Because the PDF has no text layer, which is what happens with scans and photographed documents. Run it through OCR PDF first to add one, then convert.
By size. The median line size in the document is taken as the body text, and lines noticeably larger become headings: 1.7 times the body for a first level, 1.3 times for a second.
Not as tables. Their text comes across, but it is not rebuilt as a Markdown table. For tabular data, PDF to Excel is the better tool.
No. A PDF records shapes and positions rather than the intent behind them, so guessing emphasis reliably is not possible. The output is plain paragraphs, headings and lists.
No. The text is extracted on your computer inside the browser tab, and the PDF never reaches a server.