Pdf2md
10MB Rust PDF-to-Markdown Tool with a Free API
Details
- External ID
- 48175466
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pdf2md
- Website domain
- deepdiy.net
- Launched
- May 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5969305331179321
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- pdf to markdown conversion tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a small Rust binary using existing PDF parsing and layout extraction crates (like pdf-extract or lopdf) wrapped in a lightweight HTTP microservice.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: License/open source status unclear
Feature requests: Per-page image export (one image per PDF page), Vision LLM preprocessing support with both Markdown text and page rasters
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 696 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #257 of 697 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 199 days after the earliest competitor.
- Markdown to PDF CLI Tool · hn · 2026-07-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Rubrol · hn · 2026-09-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- gopd · github · 2026-09-15 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- udoc. Dependency-free document extraction in Rust · hn · 2026-05-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- I open-sourced a macOS native Markdown rendering engine · hn · 2026-07-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- PDFMergely · hn · 2026-06-30 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license · hn · 2026-04-09 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- HelixNotes · hn · 2026-02-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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