pdfmarkdown.app turns any PDF into clean, AI-ready Markdown — and it goes both ways. Everything runs in your browser, so your file never leaves your device. No signup, no upload, free.

Most converters turn a PDF into messy text: tables collapse, formulas break, figures vanish. pdfmarkdown.app is built around fidelity — the things that usually break come through intact:

• Tables stay as real Markdown tables
• Formulas render as real math (LaTeX)
• Images / figures are kept, not dropped
• Reading order and structure are preserved

See it before you trust it

You get the original PDF and the converted Markdown side by side, and the pages it couldn't read cleanly are flagged instead of faked — so you can trust the output before pasting it into Obsidian, your notes, or an AI tool.

Both directions

It also works the other way: paste or write Markdown → export a polished PDF.

Who it's for

People who live in Markdown — Obsidian and PKM users, researchers, and anyone prepping documents for RAG, ChatGPT or Claude.

Why it's different

• Browser-only — your file is never uploaded (private by default)
• Free, no signup
• Bidirectional — PDF → Markdown and Markdown → PDF
• Honest about what it can't do, instead of silently mangling it

Try it: https://pdfmarkdown.app

Recent releases have added some genuinely useful features. AI Commits let you generate commit messages and descriptions with one click, right from the commit area — handy for when writing a good commit message is the last thing you feel like doing. Automatic Branch Archiving takes care of housekeeping by detecting stale or fully merged branches and archiving them for you, so your sidebar doesn't fill up with clutter over time.

For teams with their own conventions, Custom Git Workflows let you define a branching model from scratch — trunk/topic branches, prefixes, merge strategies — or start from templates like git-flow or GitHub Flow, with one-click "Start/Finish Feature" actions to guide you through it. Tower also has Graphite Integration built in, covering stack creation, restacking, PR submission, and merge queue support without leaving the app.

Two more additions support more advanced setups: Worktree Support, for checking out and working on multiple branches at once, and Stacked Branches, which track parent-child relationships between branches so you can work with stacked pull requests and restack a whole chain with a single action.

Rounding things out, Commit Templates let teams reuse commit message formats across a repository, with quick keyboard access when you need one.