PDF to Markdown that preserves layout, images, and tables
Details
- External ID
- 46464112
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- PDF to Markdown that preserves layout, images, and tables
- Website domain
- pdftomarkdown.pro
- Launched
- Jan. 2, 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 built this because I often need clean Markdown from PDFs for writing, documentation, and LLM workflows.Most existing tools either flatten everything into text or rely purely on OCR. I wanted something that preserves structure and is actually usable in Markdown.Feedback welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- pdf to markdown converter
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes High-accuracy PDF-to-Markdown conversion that handles tables and images can be built by orchestrating off-the-shelf vision LLMs (like GPT-4o) or open-source document layout engines (Marker, Nougat, MinerU).
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 63 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Pdf-to-Markdown CLI · hn · 2026-04-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- PDF to MD · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MarkAny · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Bindery · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- TokDown · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Markling · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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