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.

What frontmatter does Docusaurus expect on Markdown pages?

Common keys: id (unique per page, used in sidebar references), title (rendered as page H1 if no H1 in body), slug (URL path; defaults to filename), sidebar_position (numeric, controls order in autogenerated sidebars), sidebar_label (override the sidebar text). Add them by hand after conversion or with a one-line shell loop that prepends a frontmatter block per file.

How do I configure sidebars.js for migrated content?

Two modes. Autogenerated : sidebars.js exports { tutorialSidebar: [{ type: "autogenerated", dirName: "." }] } and Docusaurus walks the docs tree, ordered by sidebar_position frontmatter. Explicit : list every page and category by hand for full control over hierarchy and labels. Start with autogenerated for speed; switch to explicit when you need custom ordering.

Does Docusaurus versioning work with migrated wiki content?

Yes — versioning is content-agnostic. Once your migrated docs are in docs/ , run npm run docusaurus docs:version <version> and Docusaurus copies the current state into versioned_docs/ and freezes it. Useful for preserving the legacy wiki's historical state as v1, then doing all forward work on the unversioned tree.

MDX vs plain MD for converted content?

Plain .md works for everything the conversion produces (headings, lists, tables, code blocks, links, images). Switch to .mdx only when you want to embed React components — interactive examples, custom admonition components, dynamic content. The converted Markdown is valid MDX as-is, so renaming is a one-step upgrade.

How do I handle images and assets from migrated wiki pages?

The conversion preserves image references as Markdown image syntax pointing to the original URLs. For self-contained Docusaurus sites, post-process the Markdown with a small script: extract every ![alt](url) , fetch each image, save under static/img/migrated/ , rewrite the Markdown links to /img/migrated/<filename> . Docusaurus serves anything in static/ at the corresponding URL path.

URL to Markdown for Docusaurus — Migrate Wikis

The wiki-to-Docusaurus migration workflow

List the URLs you're migrating (export the wiki sitemap, scrape the nav from the legacy site, or hand-curate). For each URL: open URL to Markdown, paste, Convert, save the .md into docs/<category>/<slug>.md. Add YAML frontmatter to each file (id, title, slug, sidebar_position) — Docusaurus uses these for routing, navigation order, and page titles. Wire up the structure in sidebars.js (autogenerated mode reads the file tree; explicit mode lets you order things by hand). Run npm run start; the local site appears with everything in place.

MDX support and embedded React components

Docusaurus accepts both .md and .mdx. The converted output is plain Markdown, which works in either context. If you later want to embed React components (interactive code playgrounds, custom callouts, framework-specific tabs), rename the file to .mdx and import components at the top — the rest of the file stays as Markdown. Migrating from a wiki that has PDFs attached as references? Convert those via PDF to Markdown and inline the result alongside your converted wiki pages.

Docusaurus versioning, applied to migrated content

The killer feature for technical docs. Once your initial migration is in docs/, run npm run docusaurus docs:version 1.0.0 and Docusaurus snapshots the current state into versioned_docs/version-1.0.0/. Future doc changes only affect the unversioned docs/ directory; the snapshot stays frozen. For migrated content, this means you can carry the legacy wiki's version-stamped state into Docusaurus and keep history navigable forever.

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

URL to Markdown for Docusaurus — Modern Docs from Web Content

The wiki-to-Docusaurus migration workflow

MDX support and embedded React components

Docusaurus versioning, applied to migrated content

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