You get readable Markdown with headings, lists, links and tables.
Convert a PDF, Word document, web page or HTML file to clean Markdown with headings, lists, links and tables. It is free, and your files never leave your device.
How to convert a file to Markdown
- Press Open a file and choose a PDF, a Word (.docx) file, an HTML file or a text file, or drop it anywhere on the page.
- To convert a web page or an email, copy the part you want and paste it into the Source box.
- Adjust the options for Links, Images and Page breaks if you want them handled differently.
- Read the Markdown, then press Copy Markdown or Download .md.
Why Markdown
Markdown is plain text that keeps only the structure that matters: headings, lists, emphasis, links and tables. When you paste a web page or a PDF into a chat tool, a note app or a document, hidden layout, menus and broken lines often come along with it. Markdown strips that away, so the text is shorter, easier to read and easier to reuse in note apps, GitHub, wikis and docs.
What it converts
PDF: text PDFs become headings, paragraphs and lists, with hyphenated line ends joined back together. Scanned PDFs need scanned PDF to text first. Word: headings, bold and italic, lists, tables and links. Web pages and emails: copy any part and paste it here. HTML files: scripts and styles are dropped and the content is kept.
Tips for better results
- Use the original PDF rather than a photo or scan of it, because only real text can be read.
- Complicated layouts, such as magazine columns, may need a quick tidy-up in the Markdown afterwards.
- Page breaks can be marked or left out, which is useful when a PDF has repeating headers.
- Check tables after converting, because very wide tables can come out as plain lines.
Who uses it
Students turn lecture notes and readings into searchable notes. Writers move drafts between apps. Office teams prepare handbooks and reports for a wiki, and developers turn documents into README files. If you plan to share the result, run it through redact text first to remove personal details.
Privacy
Files are opened and converted inside your browser and are never uploaded. You can use it on documents that contain private details.
Questions
Which Markdown flavour is it?
GitHub-flavoured Markdown, which includes tables and strikethrough and works almost everywhere.
Can it convert a whole website?
It converts what you paste or open. For a full page, select all on the page, copy, and paste here.
Can I convert Markdown back to a PDF?
Yes. Use Markdown to PDF, or write and preview in the Markdown editor.