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PDF to Markdown

Headings, lists, tables and reading order, as Markdown you can paste anywhere.

Free · no sign-up · no watermark · up to 50 MB · uploads deleted after 24 hours, results after 7 days.

How to pdf to markdown

  1. Drop the PDF or Word file.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. 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 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.