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Convert PDF to Markdown or Text

Extract clean, properly structured Markdown or plain text — headings, paragraphs, lists, tables and reading order preserved. No copy-pasting.

Structure-awareRebuilds headings, lists & tables — not raw text dumps.
Private & secureProcessed in memory and removed after your session.
Markdown or plain textSwitch format anytime — edit before you download.
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See the difference

Same document. Clean structure. Perfect readability.

Before (PDF)
After (Markdown)
# Project Proposal
 
## 1. Introduction
This proposal outlines the scope, timeline, and costs associated with the construction of the new office complex.
 
## 2. Project Details
 
| Item | Description | Estimated Cost |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Design | Architectural & Structural | $12,500 |
| Construction | Main Building | $250,000 |
| Electrical | Wiring & Installation | $18,000 |
 
## 3. Timeline
- Design Phase: 2 weeks
- Construction Phase: 16 weeks
- Final Inspection: 1 week

Convert PDF to Markdown or plain text

Every word is kept. Your headings, paragraphs, lists, tables and links all carry over — nothing is summarised, dropped or rewritten. The converter simply rebuilds the document’s real structure and writes it out as clean Markdown (.md) or plain text (.txt) you can edit, publish or reuse.

A PDF only records where each glyph sits on the page, not how the document is organised — which is why copy-pasting so often gives you broken lines, duplicated headers and scrambled columns. Instead of that, you get the same content in the correct reading order, ready to work with.

How PDF-to-Markdown conversion works

  1. Upload a PDF (up to 10MB and 100 pages). Only PDF files are accepted.
  2. Structure detection groups text into lines and paragraphs, detects headings from font size and weight, rebuilds lists and tables, and works out the correct reading order — including two-column layouts.
  3. Review & download in an editor beside a preview of your original PDF. Switch between Markdown and plain text, fix anything, and download.

Markdown or plain text — which should I pick?

Markdown keeps structure with lightweight symbols: # for headings,- for lists, and pipes for tables. It renders cleanly on GitHub, in notes apps, wikis and static-site generators. Plain text drops the symbols entirely for the simplest possible output — useful when you only need the words.

Tables, headings and reading order

Headings are detected from a combination of font size, weight and spacing rather than a single fixed threshold, so a bold sentence in the body is not mistaken for a section title. Detected tables become Markdown tables, aligned text or tab-separated values. Two-column articles are read column by column instead of being flattened row by row.

Scanned PDFs and OCR

This tool extracts real, selectable text. If a PDF is a scanned image with no text layer, it tells you that OCR is required rather than returning empty output — so you always know why a page came back blank.

Privacy

Your file is processed to extract its text and is removed automatically after your session. We do not use uploaded documents to train AI models. See our privacy policy for details.

Frequently asked questions

  • Yes. Upload your PDF and it is converted to clean Markdown with headings, paragraphs, lists, tables and links rebuilt from the document structure. You can edit the result and download it as a .md file.

  • It detects headings from font size, weight and spacing, and reconstructs bullet and numbered lists — including nested items. You can toggle heading and list detection off if you prefer plain paragraphs.

  • Detected tables are rebuilt as Markdown tables, aligned plain text, or tab-separated values — your choice. Very complex tables may need a quick manual review, which the editor lets you do before you download.

  • The converter extracts real, selectable text. If a PDF is a scanned image with no text layer, it will tell you that OCR is required rather than returning empty output. OCR is not part of this tool yet.

  • Yes. The extracted content opens in an editor next to a preview of your PDF, so you can compare, fix anything, switch between Markdown and plain text, and rename the file before downloading.

  • Your file is processed to extract its text and is removed automatically after your session. We do not use uploaded documents to train AI models.

  • Unicode text is preserved, and the editor supports right-to-left content with automatic direction. As with any PDF tool, extraction quality depends on how the original document embedded its fonts.

  • Markdown keeps structure using lightweight symbols — # for headings, - for lists, pipes for tables — so it renders nicely on GitHub, in notes apps and static sites. Plain text drops the symbols for the simplest possible output.

  • You can convert PDFs up to 10MB and 100 pages. If your file is larger, compress it first and convert the smaller version.

  • PDFs describe where glyphs sit on a page, not the logical document. Multi-column layouts, unusual fonts and heavy tables can be ambiguous, so the tool shows confidence-based warnings and lets you correct anything before downloading.