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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
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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.

Other launches for this product

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