How PDF conversion works
Our engine parses the internal structure of your PDF files to produce clean, semantic Markdown — not a naive text dump.
Multi-column layout detection preserves document structure across complex page designs
Table extraction maps rows, columns, merged cells, and headers to Markdown tables
Heading hierarchy is inferred from font size and weight for proper semantic structure
Image OCR extracts text from embedded charts, diagrams, and scanned pages
List detection identifies numbered and bulleted lists regardless of formatting style
Footer and header stripping removes repeated page elements for cleaner output
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Integrate in minutes
A single API call converts your PDF files to Markdown. Drop it into any pipeline.
curl -X POST \
https://markdownanything.com/api/v1/convert \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MDA_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@financial-report.pdf"# Q4 Financial Report ## Executive Summary Revenue increased by **23%** year-over-year... | Metric | Q4 2024 | Q4 2023 | |---------|---------|---------| | Revenue | $4.2M | $3.4M |
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