Convert PDF to Markdown

Turn a PDF into clean Markdown you can paste into docs, wikis or a repo.

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Markdown is what you want when a PDF has to become editable text that lives in a repo, a wiki or a docs site. Doclium infers the structure from the page -- what the document treats as a heading, a list, a table -- and writes it out as plain Markdown.

How to convert PDF to Markdown

  1. 1Upload the PDF you want to convert.
  2. 2Choose Export, then Markdown.
  3. 3Download the .md file and paste it wherever you need it.

Questions people ask

How are headings decided?

From the page itself: the most common text size is treated as body text, and only meaningfully larger text becomes a heading. The detection is deliberately conservative -- over-eager guessing turns half a document into headings, which is worse than plain paragraphs.

Are tables converted?

Yes, as real Markdown tables where they can be detected, and those rows are left out of the text so nothing appears twice.

Will it work on a scanned PDF?

Run OCR first to recover the text, then convert.

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