How to Convert PDF to Markdown — Free Online Tool
Upload any PDF and instantly convert it to clean Markdown while preserving headings, bullet points, and table structure. Works with scanned PDFs via OCR. Copy the output directly into Notion, Slack, GitHub Issues, or any Markdown-aware tool. No sign-up, no storage, completely free.
Why convert PDF to Markdown?
PDFs are great for distribution and printing but terrible for editing, searching, and sharing. Converting to Markdown gives you editable, searchable text that slots directly into knowledge tools like Notion, Confluence, and Obsidian.
Teams that archive meeting notes, contracts, and technical documents in an internal wiki will find that PDF-to-Markdown is the first step toward a fully searchable knowledge base.
Key features
Structure-preserving conversion powered by Microsoft's MarkItDown library. Heading hierarchy, lists, and tables are accurately mapped to Markdown syntax, minimizing manual cleanup.
Scanned PDFs (image-only pages) are also supported. Tesseract OCR extracts Japanese and English text before converting to Markdown. Works with receipts, business cards, screenshots, and more — regardless of document format.
Why it's free
This tool is funded by advertising revenue and Premium plan subscriptions, so the Free plan requires no account. The daily upload limit is 20 MB per file. AI features (meeting notes generation, document formatting) require a reward ad view or a Light/Premium plan.
Uploaded files are automatically deleted from AWS S3 within one hour of processing. Nothing is stored permanently on our servers.
When it comes in handy
· Paste a distributed PDF agenda into Notion · Make key clauses in a contract PDF searchable as text · OCR-transcribe a scanned document for pasting into Excel · Feed a PDF report to ChatGPT for summarization · Photograph a printed handout with your phone and convert it to Markdown