This guide covers essential PDF processing operations using Python libraries and command-line tools. For advanced features, JavaScript libraries, and detailed examples, see REFERENCE.md.

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Use the pdf-to-md skill to effortlessly turn mixed pdfs into ai-friendly markdown. A reliable, executable skill for Claude, contributed by taturou, designed for Software Engineering workflows.

Convert academic PDFs to GitHub Markdown. Fix LaTeX rendering, extract images, and automate research paper conversion for GitHub/GitLab with this Claude Code skill.

Extract text from PDF files and convert to Markdown with automatic heading detection based on font size. Free, private, no signup required.

DescribePDF is an open-source tool designed to convert PDF files into detailed page-by-page descriptions in Markdown format using Vision-Language Models (VLMs).

Developed an intelligent document conversion tool that leverages OCR technology and large language models to transform PDF documents into well-formatted Markdown while preserving the original document’s structure, formatting, and styling elements.

Today, I’ll show you how to convert any PDF to clean, structured Markdown using a local LLM (Gemma 3 via Ollama) — no cloud APIs, no privacy worries, no API tokens vanishing at midnight.

Convert your PDF documents to Markdown format online for free. Extract text content and basic formatting from PDFs to Markdown.

Academic PDF → GitHub GFM Conversion A battle-tested workflow for converting academic/research PDF papers into GitHub-renderable GFM markdown with inline figures, mathematically correct LaTeX, and validated output. Battle-tested on: López de Prado (2026) "How to Use the Sharpe Ratio" — 51 pages, 82 equations, 8 figures.