Extract the text from a PDF and get it as Markdown, entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
Runs fully in your browser, so your file never leaves your device. Extracts text and line breaks; scanned PDFs without a text layer cannot be read.
How to use the PDF to Markdown
Click Choose PDF and pick a file from your device.
Wait a moment while the text is extracted in your browser.
Copy the Markdown or download it as a .md file.
Frequently asked questions
No. The PDF is read and parsed entirely in your browser using pdf.js, so the file never leaves your device. That makes it safe for confidential documents.
No. It extracts the text layer that a PDF carries. Scanned documents are images without a text layer, so they would need OCR, which this tool does not perform.
PDFs store positioned text, not document structure, so headings and styling cannot be recovered reliably. The tool focuses on extracting the text and its line breaks cleanly.
A PDF to Markdown converter that extracts the text layer of a PDF in your browser and returns it as clean Markdown-ready text, page by page.
Because it runs locally with pdf.js, it is fast and private, and works well for text-based PDFs such as reports, articles and exports.
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