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report.pdf
report.md
# Q3 Report
Revenue grew 24% quarter over quarter…
## Highlights
- New markets
- Lower churn

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Everything you need for accurate PDF to MD conversion

One upload turns your PDF into structured Markdown — no manual cleanup after the PDF to MD conversion.

Accurate extraction

Digital PDFs come out exactly as written — correct reading order, no OCR noise, no scrambled characters. The PDF to MD engine reads your document's real text layer, so the Markdown matches the source.

Structure preserved

PDF to MD conversion detects headings, paragraphs, and lists and writes them as proper Markdown syntax — real document structure, not a wall of unformatted text.

Built for speed

Most documents go from PDF to MD in seconds. Copy the result straight into your editor and keep moving.

AI reads scans & images

Scanned pages and image-based PDFs go from PDF to MD as well — AI-powered OCR reads every page image, and a vision model can reconstruct tables, formulas and seals as structured Markdown.

Conversion history

Every PDF to MD conversion is saved to your account, so you can re-copy or re-download the Markdown output anytime, from any device.

SOTA OCR models

Scanned pages are read by state-of-the-art OCR and vision models — from fast plain-text recognition to full structural reconstruction of tables, formulas and seals.

From PDF to MD in three steps

No settings to learn, nothing to install. Upload your PDF, let the PDF to MD converter work, and grab your Markdown.

  1. 1

    Upload your PDF

    Drag & drop or pick the PDF you want to convert to MD — up to 10 pages per file on the Free plan, and up to 200 pages on paid plans.

  2. 2

    We convert it

    The PDF to MD engine extracts text, headings, and lists — scanned pages are read by AI-powered OCR — then everything is rewritten as clean, portable Markdown.

  3. 3

    Copy or download

    Grab the .md file or copy the Markdown to your clipboard. Your history keeps every PDF to MD result for later.

Why convert PDF to MD?

PDF is built for printing, Markdown for working — PDF to MD bridges the two.

When you convert PDF to MD, the text locked inside a fixed, hard-to-edit document becomes plain, portable Markdown you can search, version-control, and reuse anywhere — in Obsidian or Notion notes, in Git repositories, in static-site generators, and in every documentation tool you already use.

PDF to MD conversion has also become the standard preprocessing step for AI workflows. Large language models handle Markdown far better than raw PDF text, so converting from PDF to MD first gives your RAG pipelines, chatbots, and summarizers clean input — with headings and lists intact instead of a jumble of broken lines.

Doing the job by hand means copy-pasting page after page, then fixing broken paragraphs, stray line breaks, and lost formatting. A dedicated PDF to MD converter handles that cleanup automatically: pdftomd re-flows paragraphs, restores heading levels, and keeps lists as lists, so the Markdown is ready the moment the conversion finishes.

Simple pricing

Start free every day. Upgrade when your PDF to MD volume grows — cancel anytime.

Basic

$0

For trying it out

  • 10 pages free every day
  • Up to 10 pages per file
  • Standard OCR mode
  • Vision mode
  • Conversion history

Starter

$15.9/mo

For regular documents

  • 1,000 pages per month
  • Up to 20 pages per file
  • Standard OCR mode
  • Vision mode
  • Conversion history
  • Email support
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Professional

$19.9/mo

For heavy users & automation

  • 3,000 pages per month
  • Up to 100 pages per file
  • Standard OCR mode
  • Vision mode
  • Conversion history
  • Priority support

Enterprise

$99.9/mo

For teams & pipelines at scale

  • 30,000 pages per month
  • Up to 200 pages per file
  • Standard OCR mode
  • Vision mode
  • Conversion history
  • Dedicated support

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know before your first PDF to MD conversion.

MD is the file extension for Markdown, a lightweight plain-text format. PDF to MD conversion extracts the text of a PDF document and rewrites it as Markdown — headings become # headings, bullet points become list items, and paragraphs are re-flowed into clean text you can edit anywhere.

Every account gets 10 pages of PDF to MD conversion per day, counted per PDF page and reset at midnight UTC. No credit card needed — just sign up and convert.

Yes. Every account can convert 10 pages from PDF to MD each day at no cost, with no credit card required. If you regularly convert longer documents, paid plans add a monthly page allowance, larger files, and Vision mode.

You can wait for the daily reset, or upgrade: Starter gives you 1,000 PDF to MD pages a month, Professional 3,000, Enterprise 30,000. Paid pages are consumed only after your free daily pages run out.

Yes. Image-based and scanned documents are fully supported: OCR reads each page and rewrites it as Markdown, so an image PDF goes from PDF to MD the same way a digital one does.

Digitally-created PDFs (exports from Word, Google Docs, LaTeX, and the like) go from PDF to MD with the highest fidelity. Scanned PDFs are supported too: free plans get fast line-level OCR (plain text), while paid plans use an AI vision model that reconstructs tables, formulas, charts and even seals as structured Markdown.

We use state-of-the-art (SOTA) OCR and vision models. Digital PDFs are read directly from the text layer for exact fidelity; scanned pages go through fast line-level OCR on free plans, while paid plans use Vision mode — a vision model that reconstructs tables, formulas, charts and seals as structured Markdown.

Anything that speaks Markdown: Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, VS Code, GitHub wikis, Hugo, Jekyll, and more. After converting a PDF to MD, paste the result directly or download the .md file and drop it into your vault or repository.

Yes. Cancel in one click from your billing page — your PDF to MD access stays active until the end of the current billing period.

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