Pdf2md
10MB Rust PDF-to-Markdown Tool with a Free API
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HN · launched May 18, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 40%) · 1 view
Niche: document and file conversion tools · 216 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▼ -4% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 216 launches in document and file conversion tools →
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 : 1860 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #613 of 1861 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 199 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sygal · hn · 2026-10-15 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Markdown to PDF CLI Tool · hn · 2026-07-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Rubrol · hn · 2026-09-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- gopd · github · 2026-09-15 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- PDF.Delphi · github · 2026-10-23 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- mdr · github · 2026-10-31 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- foxit-pdf-creator · github · 2026-11-10 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- udoc. Dependency-free document extraction in Rust · hn · 2026-05-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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