PDF to Markdown
Drop in a PDF and get Markdown out — text, headings, and lists reconstructed in your browser. Copy it straight into a prompt or knowledge base, or download a .md file. The PDF is never uploaded.
Runs in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to PayloadIQ.
From a page layout to text a model can read
A PDF is built to look right on paper, not to be read by software. Open one in an LLM and you usually get a wall of broken lines, page numbers stuck mid-sentence, and headings that vanish. This converter walks the text layer of each page, rebuilds lines from the glyph positions, and promotes the larger type to # and ## headings — so what comes out is structured Markdown instead of a flat dump.
Why Markdown is the right format for AI
Markdown is the plain-text format that retrieval pipelines, prompts, and fine-tuning datasets all speak. It keeps the structure a model relies on — headings, bullet points, tables — while dropping the binary wrapper that would otherwise cost you tokens and confuse the context. Convert once, and the same .md drops cleanly into ChatGPT, Claude, a RAG index, or your docs.
Local, private, and free
Everything runs on your machine. The parser and its worker are served from PayloadIQ itself, so no part of your PDF is sent to a server here or anywhere else. Big files just take a moment — you'll see progress as the pages come through.