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PDF to MD

Turn PDFs into editable Markdown, locally or with OCR

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Convert text PDFs, DOCX, and HTML to editable Markdown locally in your browser, without uploading file contents. Review the output and download individual files or a batch ZIP. Optional cloud OCR handles scanned PDFs and images; REST API and MCP access support automated workflows. Local conversion is free. Cloud features use account quotas, with paid plans and OCR packs available.

PH · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view

Niche: document and file conversion tools · 216 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▼ -4% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Productivity
  • API
  • Developer Tools

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Could you build this?

Yes The browser client uses readily available client-side libraries (like pdfjs-dist and turndown) to extract text to Markdown, with standard API calls to an OCR service for scanned documents.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2003 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1589 of 2004 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.

  • PDF To Markdown · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.84
  • MD PDF Converter · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
  • MarkAny · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • PDF-to-Word.io · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • mdprint · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • PDF-Editor · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • PDF2Word · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • DOCX to PDF · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66

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