Turn PDF documents into MD. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop PDF files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop PDF files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the MD, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The PDF to MD converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your documents are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
A PDF is hard to edit, and many upload forms and image tools want pictures instead. Markdown is plain text that stays readable and is easy to keep in version control. PDF is at home in documents that must look the same everywhere, and printing; MD is the usual choice for READMEs, notes and documentation.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can choose which pages to convert and set or supply a password.
Only the text and its outline (headings, paragraphs, lists) are rebuilt. Tables, columns set side by side and images do not survive, and a scanned PDF, which holds pictures of pages rather than text, yields little or nothing because ToAny does not do OCR. A password-protected PDF needs its password, entered under Options; without it the file is refused.
PDF fixes a document's layout so it looks identical on every screen and printer. That makes it the default for forms, invoices and anything sent to print, and also what makes it awkward to edit.
Opens in Every browser, phone and computer
PDF converterMarkdown is plain text with a few symbols for headings, lists, links and emphasis. It is readable as-is and converts cleanly to HTML, which is why developers and note-takers favour it.
Opens in Any text editor; rendered by GitHub, Obsidian, Notion and many note apps
MD converter| PDFPDF document | MDMarkdown | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Portable Document Format | Markdown |
| Type | Fixed-layout document | Lightweight markup text |
| Compression | Mixed: text is stored as text, images keep their own compression | None |
| Introduced | 1993, by Adobe (an ISO standard since 2008) | 2004, by John Gruber |
| Opens in | Every browser, phone and computer | Any text editor; rendered by GitHub, Obsidian, Notion and many note apps |
| Best for | Documents that must look the same everywhere, and printing | READMEs, notes and documentation |
| File extension | .pdf, .ai | .md, .markdown |
No. The PDF to MD conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Text is kept. Formatting carries over only as far as MD supports it.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the PDF file, press Convert and save the MD. There is nothing to install.
Because nothing is uploaded, the practical limit is your device's memory. Very large files can fail on phones with little free memory; a computer copes better.