Convert a PDF's text into Markdown, with automatic heading and list detection. Free, in your browser.
🔒 Processed entirely in your browser. Your PDF is never uploaded.
It's extraction with structural inference, and that's actually the right scope for this format. This tool pulls the PDF's real embedded text, then uses font-size comparisons and formatting clues to guess at headings, bold text, and bullet lists — it doesn't attempt to reproduce the PDF's exact visual layout, because Markdown itself isn't a layout format. This is a genuinely different job from PDF to Text, which just dumps everything as-is with no structural interpretation.
Is this a genuine conversion, or is it just extracting text?
Honestly, it's extraction with structural inference, not a full layout-preserving conversion. It pulls the PDF's real text and uses font-size and formatting clues to guess at headings, bold text, and bullet lists — which is actually the right scope for Markdown, since Markdown itself is a lightweight structure format, not a page-layout format.
How does it decide what's a heading?
It compares each line's font size to the most common (body text) size in the document. Noticeably larger text becomes a heading, with bigger jumps producing a higher-level heading (# vs ## vs ###). This works well on most reports and documents but can occasionally misfire on unusually styled PDFs.
Will bold text and bullet lists carry over?
Bold is detected from the embedded font name where the PDF exposes that information, and converted to **bold**. Bulleted lines (starting with •, -, or similar) are converted to Markdown list items. Both are best-effort — not every PDF embeds this information the same way.
Will tables convert to Markdown tables?
No — tables are extracted as their raw text lines rather than reformatted into Markdown table syntax. For PDFs where the tables matter most, PDF to CSV or PDF to Excel is a better fit.
Does this work on scanned PDFs?
No. It reads the PDF's actual embedded text layer, not pixels — a scanned PDF with no real text layer has nothing for it to extract.
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
No. Extraction and Markdown generation both happen entirely in your browser — your file is never sent to a server.