Convert PDF to Markdown
Get a PDF back as plain, portable Markdown. Headings become #, lists become lists, and detected tables come out as GFM pipe tables — ready to paste into a README, a wiki, or an AI prompt.
How to
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Upload your PDF
Drop in the PDF you want as Markdown.
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Choose your options
Keep images (delivered as a .zip alongside the .md) or drop them for a single plain file. Turn on AI cleanup for messy or scanned-looking documents.
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Download the Markdown
Open it in any editor — the structure is real Markdown, not a wall of text.
Why Pditor
Structure, not just text
Headings are ranked by size, lists keep their markers, and tables come out as proper Markdown tables.
Ready for AI and version control
Markdown is the format LLMs and git both read best — far more useful than a PDF or a .docx.
FAQ
What happens to images in the PDF?+
By default they're extracted into an images/ folder and delivered as a .zip with the Markdown, which links to them. Turn images off to get a single plain .md instead.
Are tables preserved?+
Yes — detected tables are reconstructed as GitHub-flavoured pipe tables, using the same table detection that powers PDF → Excel.
What does AI cleanup do?+
It re-reads the extracted structure to merge paragraphs broken across lines, fix reading order, and reclassify headings and lists. Useful on messy documents; unnecessary on clean ones.
Does it work on scanned PDFs?+
A scanned page has no text layer, so run OCR first to get selectable text, then convert.
What happens to my file afterwards?+
Your upload and the Markdown output are deleted from storage within an hour.