arxiv2md: Convert ArXiv papers to markdown
Details
- External ID
- 46561392
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- arxiv2md: Convert ArXiv papers to markdown
- Website domain
- arxiv2md.org
- Launched
- Jan. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2549407114624506
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I got tired of copy-pasting arXiv PDFs / HTML into LLMs and fighting references, TOCs, and token bloat. So I basically made gitingest.com but for arxiv papers. You can just append "2md" to any arxiv URL (with HTML support), and you'll be given a clean markdown version, and the ability to trim what you wish very easily (ie cut out references, or appendix, etc.)
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- academic paper format conversion tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard web utility that fetches arXiv HTML or converts PDFs to Markdown using established parsing libraries and presents it in a web UI.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 51 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Pdf-to-Markdown CLI · hn · 2026-04-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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- Flowershow · ph · 2026-03-25 · 174 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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