PDF to Markdown Converter
Create Markdown with full-page visuals for layout fidelity, plus selectable text, embedded images, and optional OCR.
Convert a PDF into a Markdown file suitable for a wiki, static site, or documentation repo, bundled as a ZIP with a rendered image of every page, extracted embedded images, and the document's selectable text. Diagrams, charts, and scanned sections that have no selectable text get OCR applied so their content is still searchable in the Markdown. Everything runs locally in your browser using PDF.js and Tesseract, and the output includes YAML frontmatter with the source metadata.
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How it works
- 01
Upload your PDF.
- 02
Choose whether to run OCR on image-only content.
- 03
Click Convert and wait for processing to finish.
- 04
Download the ZIP containing the Markdown file and extracted images.
Details
- Category
- Documents & PDF
- Runs
- In your browser
- Files uploaded
- No
- Cost per run
- Free
- Sign-in
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes, once loaded
Last updated 2026-08-03
Common questions
Is my PDF uploaded?
Never. Parsing, image extraction, and OCR all run locally in your browser.
Does Markdown preserve the original page layout?
The ZIP bundle includes a full rendered image of every page and references it before the extracted text.
What's the OCR for?
Charts, scans, and diagrams embedded in the PDF are images with no selectable text. We extract them and run Tesseract OCR to recover their text into your Markdown.
Do I get the extracted images too?
Yes - download the ZIP bundle. It contains the Markdown plus every extracted image in an /images folder, referenced correctly from the Markdown.
What's in the YAML frontmatter?
The PDF's own metadata (Title, Author, CreationDate, etc.), the source filename, page count, and image count.