PDF to Markdown
Convert PDF text to Markdown with headings, lists and paragraph structure detected, ready for a wiki, a repository or a static site.
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Documentation increasingly lives in Markdown - in repositories, wikis and static site generators. Legacy documentation lives in PDFs. Moving from one to the other by hand is the kind of task that quietly consumes a week.
This converts the PDF text into Markdown with structure preserved. Headings are detected from font size and weight and written as hash levels, bulleted and numbered lists are recognised and marked up, and paragraphs are joined into single blocks rather than left as one line per PDF line.
You can restrict the conversion to a page range, which is useful when only one chapter of a long manual needs to move into the new system.
Cómo usar
Load the PDF
Drop in the file. It needs a text layer, so run OCR first on scans.
Choose a page range
Convert the whole document or just the section you need.
Convert
Structure is inferred from typography and written as Markdown.
Download and review
Save the .md file and check the heading levels came out as you expected.
Casos de uso
Migrating documentation
A PDF manual moved into a docs site or repository as Markdown.
Wiki imports
Legacy PDFs turned into wiki pages that can be searched and edited.
Version-controlled text
Content in a format where changes produce a readable diff.
Preguntas frecuentes
How are headings identified?
By relative font size and weight. Documents with consistent typography convert cleanly; inconsistent ones need heading levels adjusted afterwards.
Do tables convert?
Simple tables become Markdown pipe tables. Complex or merged-cell tables are better handled by Extract Tables.
What happens to images?
Markdown references text, not binary data. Use Extract Images to pull the images out separately and link them.
Will it work on a scan?
Only after OCR. Without a text layer there is nothing to convert.