How do I convert a PDF to Markdown for free?

Upload your PDF to mdisbetter.com, click Convert, and get clean structured Markdown in seconds. No signup, no installation — it works directly in your browser.

Why is Markdown better than PDF for AI?

Markdown reduces token usage by up to 95% compared to PDF when feeding documents to AI models like ChatGPT or Claude. PDF contains layout metadata, fonts, and binary data that waste tokens. Markdown preserves only the content structure that AI actually needs.

What file types can MDisBetter convert to Markdown?

MDisBetter converts PDF, Word (.docx), plain text, YouTube videos (transcript extraction), audio files (MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, WEBM), and any web page URL to clean Markdown.

Is MDisBetter free to use?

Yes, MDisBetter is completely free. You get 10 conversions per day with no signup required. All tools work directly in your browser.

How do I extract a YouTube transcript as Markdown?

Paste the YouTube video URL into the YouTube to Markdown tool on mdisbetter.com and click Convert. The tool extracts the transcript and structures it as clean, formatted Markdown with headings and timestamps.

Are calls-to-action and buttons preserved?

Yes — button text is captured and labelled ( **CTA:** Start free trial ) so downstream analysis can spot them. The link target is kept too, useful when you want to know whether a CTA goes to /signup, /demo, or /contact.

Can this handle pages with autoplay video heroes?

Yes — video and image elements are dropped (we keep the poster alt text or the surrounding caption when present). The hero text underneath the video is the part you want, and that's what comes through.

Does this work on pages built with Webflow, Framer, or Wix?

Yes — those builders generate semantic-ish HTML that our heading-based extraction handles well. Some Framer sites are heavily JavaScript-rendered; for those we route through the headless browser path, see JavaScript SPA to Markdown .

Are pricing tables converted to Markdown tables?

When the pricing section is a real <table> or a CSS grid with consistent rows, yes — GFM table output. When pricing is laid out as separate cards (one card per plan), we emit each card as a section with the plan name as ### H3 and the features as a list. Both formats are useful for downstream comparison.

Can I batch-convert competitor pages for analysis?

Not via MDisBetter as a single batch — the web tool handles one URL per click. The OSS path: pip-install Trafilatura, write a 10-line Python loop over your competitor URL list, get one .md file per competitor ready for grep, diff, or LLM analysis. For competitor pages that defeat Trafilatura (heavy JS, anti-scraping), fall back to the MDisBetter web tool one at a time.

Landing Page to Markdown — Competitive Copy Extract

What landing-page extraction looks for

Marketing sites use semantic landmarks loosely (<section> everywhere, often nested), so we lean on heading hierarchy and content density. The hero headline becomes # H1; sub-heads become ## H2. Feature grids — typically a list of icon + heading + paragraph — become a Markdown list with each feature as a bullet. Testimonials become blockquotes with attribution. Pricing tables become GFM tables. FAQ accordions are expanded so every answer is visible in the output.

Use cases

Three obvious ones. Competitive analysis: dump 20 competitor homepages to Markdown, feed to an LLM, ask "which positioning angles dominate; what's differentiated; what's missing". Copy audits: grep across your own site's converted Markdown for inconsistent product names, broken value propositions, contradictory claims. RAG over marketing: index converted pages so customer-facing AI assistants can answer "what does the Pro plan include" from the same source of truth as the website.

Tool	Cost	Unit
Text to MD, EPUB to MD, MD to PDF, MD Cleaner, Merger, Chunker, Token Counter, Context Builder	Free	—
Word to MD	0.5 credit	per page
Excel to MD	0.5 credit	per conversion
Single URL Scrape	0.5 credit	per call
Site Crawl	1 credit	per page
Translate	1 credit	per 10 000 chars (min 1, free re-translation on cache hit)
Prompt Optimizer	1 credit	per call
System Prompt Generator	1 credit	per call
Audio to MD	2 credits	per minute
Video to MD	2 credits	per minute
YouTube to MD	2 credits	per minute
Image OCR	4 credits	per image (0 on cache hit)
PDF to MD	4 credits	per page
PPTX to MD	4 credits	per slide

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