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PDF to Markdown
Headings, lists, tables and reading order, as Markdown you can paste anywhere.
More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.Add to Chrome
How to convert PDF to Markdown
- Drop the PDF or Word file.
- Nothing to choose.
- Press Convert and download the .md file.
What happens to your file
The same reading-order extraction as PDF to text, with the structure written out: heading levels from font sizes and styles, bullet and numbered lists, and tables as pipe tables.
Images are not carried into the Markdown; their captions are, where the document has them.
The output is what an AI-ready pipeline sees — the API’s ai-ready operation adds semantic chunks and metadata on top of it.
Questions
Is this good enough to feed a language model?
Yes — it is the same text the API hands to models. Reading order and headings are the two things that matter most, and both are kept.
What about scanned PDFs?
Run OCR PDF first, then convert the searchable result.
Do it once, not on every form
Fixing a file here means downloading it and going back to the form. The Fylane extension does this work inside the form instead, on the file you already have.
And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.
Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.
Related tools
Do this in code
curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"file_id": "<file id>",
"operation": "extract-text",
"options": {}
}'The same operation, extract-text — Markdown and the structured v1 content schema. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.