Convert a research paper PDF to Markdown
Turn an academic paper PDF into clean Markdown and RAG chunks with page numbers. This example converts the BERT paper from arXiv, reading its two-column pages in the right order and keeping section headings, so every chunk can cite the page it came from. Paste any public PDF link to do the same for your own papers.
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