PDF to Markdown Converter

It turns a PDF into plain text that carries its structure — headings as hashes, lists as bullets, tables as pipe-delimited rows. It matters more than it used to because language models and search indexes read markdown well and PDFs badly, so the conversion is now the first step of a lot of pipelines rather than an occasional convenience.

Yes, a file at a time. The paid plans are for the cases that repeat: whole folders in one pass, documents whose template carries its own furniture to identify, and keeping that handling consistent so the four hundredth file comes back looking like the first.

Simple tables map onto markdown cleanly. Merged cells and nested headers have no equivalent in markdown at all, so something has to give — and rather than quietly flattening them, those get called out, so you can decide whether that table needs to stay an image or be restructured by hand.

Not currently. A scanned page is an image of text rather than text, and reading images is not something this does today. There is a quick test: open the PDF and try to select a sentence with your cursor. If the selection works, so will the conversion; if nothing highlights, it will not.

Most convert and stop, which is the right shape when you have one file. This is built for four hundred from the same source: what counts as furniture in that template is worked out once and applied to the rest, and you are told what was removed rather than having to trust that clean-looking output is complete.