Enhanced AI
AI-powered extraction to convert scanned PDFs, images, audio, and complex documents to Markdown with high fidelity.
Enhanced AI leverages advanced AI models to handle content that standard conversion cannot process. This includes OCR for scanned documents and images, transcription for audio files, and intelligent extraction for complex or mixed-format content.
When to Use Enhanced AI
Enable Enhanced AI when your source file contains:
- Scanned PDFs — Documents that were scanned from paper rather than created digitally.
- Images of text — Photos of receipts, whiteboards, handwritten notes, or screenshots.
- Mixed documents — PDFs that combine digital text with embedded scanned pages.
- Audio files — WAV, MP3, or M4A files that need higher-quality transcription.
For digitally-created documents (Word files, HTML, plain text), standard conversion produces excellent results and Enhanced AI is not necessary.
Enhanced AI is available on all paid plans. Free tier accounts use standard conversion only.
Credit Costs by Plan
Enhanced AI costs more credits per conversion than standard processing. The cost varies by plan.
Enhanced AI credit costs vary by plan. Check the table below to understand how many credits each conversion will use.
| Plan | Standard Cost | Enhanced AI Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 credit | Not available |
| Starter | 1 credit | 3 credits |
| Professional | 1 credit | 2 credits |
| Business | 1 credit | 2 credits |
Professional and Business plans benefit from a lower Enhanced AI cost (2 credits vs 3 on Starter), making high-volume workloads more economical.
How It Works
Upload Your File
Upload your file through the dashboard or API. Enable the Enhanced AI toggle or pass use_enhanced_ai: true in your API request.
AI Processing
The file is sent through an AI-powered pipeline that extracts and interprets content — OCR for scanned documents and images, transcription for audio, and intelligent parsing for complex formats. Document structure (headings, lists, tables) is preserved where possible.
Markdown Output
The extracted text is formatted as clean Markdown, ready for use in your application or LLM pipeline.
Enabling Enhanced AI
Toggle Enhanced AI on before clicking Convert. The credit cost shown updates to reflect the higher rate.
Pass use_enhanced_ai: true in your conversion request:
curl -X POST https://markdownanything.com/api/v1/convert \
-H "Authorization: Bearer mda_your_token" \
-F "[email protected]" \
-F "use_enhanced_ai=true"Go to Settings > Workspace and enable Prefer Enhanced AI. All future conversions in this workspace will use Enhanced AI by default unless overridden per-request.
Auto-Refund
If an Enhanced AI conversion fails, the full credit cost (2 or 3 credits depending on your plan) is automatically refunded. See Conversions for details on the retry and refund process.
Next Steps
- Credits & Billing — Understand plan pricing and overage rates
- Token Optimization — Further reduce output size after conversion
- Supported Formats — Which formats benefit most from Enhanced AI