PDF to Markdown

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Turn a PDF into Markdown with headings, lists, bold and italic preserved.

Get Structured Text, Not a Wall of Words

Plain text extraction loses a document's structure. This converter reads the font sizes and styles in the PDF to work out which lines are headings, rebuilds paragraphs that were broken across lines, and keeps bullet lists, bold and italic, so the Markdown is ready to paste into docs, wikis or an AI chat.

Privacy Note

This tool needs server-side processing. Your file is uploaded only for the duration of the operation and is deleted from our server immediately afterwards — it is never stored, indexed, or shared.

Key Features

  • Headings detected from font size
  • Paragraphs re-joined and hyphenated line breaks repaired
  • Bullet and numbered lists, bold and italic preserved
  • Preview and copy the result, or download a .md file

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