Get clean Markdown with headings, lists and paragraphs already structured — for notes, documentation, or feeding a document to a tool that prefers plain text.
Copying text out of a PDF by hand drags along broken line breaks and loses the hierarchy: you get a wall of lines where the document had headings and lists. The Markdown output keeps that structure — # for headings, dashes for lists, blank lines between paragraphs — so the result is immediately readable and reusable.
Turning a specification into documentation, importing an article into a static site, preparing notes for a wiki, or giving a document to an assistant that works better with structured text than with a binary PDF. It is much faster than retyping, and more faithful than copy-paste.
Tables come out as text lines, images are lost, and two-column layouts can interleave. Scanned documents need OCR first, otherwise there is no text to convert. Treat the output as a strong first draft of the structure.
No — this conversion deals with text. The image files are not extracted.
Run OCR first: a scan has no text layer for this tool to read.
Text is preserved; hyperlinks become plain text rather than Markdown links.