PDF to Markdown

Convert a PDF document to Markdown, detecting its content characteristics and choosing the appropriate extraction method. Extracts text, preserves structure, and saves images to a separate assets directory.

When to use

• Converting a PDF report, paper, or book to Markdown
• Migrating PDF-based documentation to text format
• User specifies a particular extractor preference

Inputs to gather

• PDF file path (required)
• Extractor choice: marker, docling, pymupdf4llm, or pdftotext (optional; defaults from config.json)
• OCR flag: --ocr to force OCR on image-heavy documents (optional)

Procedure