PDF to Markdown Converter
Convert any PDF URL to clean Markdown, ready for LLMs, RAG pipelines and note apps. Keeps headings, lists and tables. No upload, just paste a link.
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Start the "PDF to Markdown Converter" task
The Web Fetch Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like URL and output formats, to match your specific use case.
Receive the "PDF to Markdown Converter" output
Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as URL, status, title, and more.
Integrate into your workflow
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "PDF to Markdown Converter" task via API.

Paste the PDF’s URL into the task and run it. The output keeps headings, lists and tables as Markdown text.
Yes. Every Apify task can be called through the REST API, a Python or JavaScript client, or a no-code tool like Make or Zapier, and the result comes back right away.
It works best with text-based PDFs. Scanned image-only PDFs contain no text layer, so they need OCR first.
Yes. Markdown is compact and keeps the document’s structure, so it’s a common input format for ChatGPT, Claude, LangChain and vector databases.
No. The PDF only needs to be reachable through a public URL.