PDFMarkdownConverter
Convert a PDF into Markdown right on this page. pdf.js reads the text in your browser, and the reader turns larger type into headings, bullet lines into lists and wrapped lines into paragraphs. Nothing is uploaded.
Convert a PDF to Markdown here
Runs in your browser. The file stays on your device and nothing is uploaded.
Drop a PDF here, or choose one from your device.
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How It Works
Choose a PDF or drop it on the reader at the top of this page. It stays in your browser.
pdf.js reads the text layer of every page in a worker thread.
The text size covering the most characters is taken as body text. A short line set at least 1.15 times larger becomes a heading: 1.8 times or more is #, 1.3 times ##, and smaller than that ###.
Lines starting with a bullet or a number become list items, and lines close together join into paragraphs. A larger gap above a line starts a new paragraph.
Copy the Markdown or download it as a .md file. For a document library, the API code below runs an extractor over every PDF in a bucket on Mixpeek's servers.
Code Examples
import os, requests
API = "https://api.mixpeek.com"
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['MIXPEEK_API_KEY']}",
"X-Namespace": os.environ["NAMESPACE_ID"]}
# 1. a bucket, with a schema that declares the field you will send
bucket = requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets", headers=H, json={
"bucket_name": "pdf-inputs",
"bucket_schema": {"properties": {"pdf": {"type": "pdf"}}},
}).json()
# 2. land the file as an object. the URL goes in data, on the blob
requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets/{bucket['bucket_id']}/objects", headers=H, json={
"key_prefix": "run-1",
"blobs": [{"property": "pdf", "type": "pdf",
"data": "https://example.com/report.pdf"}],
})
# 3. a collection over that bucket, running the extractor
collection = requests.post(f"{API}/v1/collections", headers=H, json={
"collection_name": "pdf-to-markdown",
"source": {"type": "bucket", "bucket_ids": [bucket["bucket_id"]]},
"feature_extractor": {"feature_extractor_name": "document_graph_extractor", "version": "v1"},
}).json()
# 4. run extraction over the bucket
requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets/{bucket['bucket_id']}/batches", headers=H, json={
"collection_ids": [collection["collection_id"]],
"auto_submit": True,
})
# 5. read the output
docs = requests.get(
f"{API}/v1/collections/{collection['collection_id']}/documents", headers=H
).json()
print(docs)Use Cases
Supported Input Formats
Quick Info
Run it over a library
Mixpeek runs this conversion as a pipeline over a whole library in your object storage, with the output landing as queryable documents. The reader on this page handles one file at a time.
Frequently Asked Questions
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