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.

How do I get Hugo-compatible front matter on converted pages?

MDisBetter's web tool emits the body as plain Markdown — add the YAML front matter as a post-processing step. For batch migrations, a 10-line Python wrapper using Trafilatura's metadata extraction (which gives you title , date , description , tags ) generates a Hugo-compatible front matter block per page. Add Hugo-specific fields ( draft , categories , theme-required keys) in the same wrapper.

Can I migrate an entire blog from a URL list?

Yes — export your source URLs (sitemap, RSS, hand-curated CSV), run each through Trafilatura (or a similar OSS extractor) in a Python loop, write each output to content/posts/<slug>.md , run hugo build . A 30-line script ties it together; we've seen 500-post migrations complete in under an hour of script time. MDisBetter's web tool covers the per-URL ad-hoc case but doesn't expose a programmatic API for scripted batches.

How do I handle images during URL-to-Hugo migration?

Two patterns. (1) Leave images as remote URLs — fastest, but breaks if the source site dies. (2) Download each referenced image to static/images/migrated/ and rewrite the Markdown image paths to local references. Pattern (2) is recommended for any production migration.

What about page bundles vs single Markdown files?

For pages with associated assets (images, downloadable files), use Hugo page bundles: create content/posts/article-name/index.md and place assets alongside. The conversion gives you the index.md ; the asset handling is a post-processing step.

Can I keep the original URLs as redirects?

Add aliases: to the front matter (Hugo generates redirects from each alias to the new URL): aliases: ["/old-blog-path/article-slug/"] . Useful when migrating from one CMS to Hugo and you want to preserve inbound links from the wider web.

Stop feeding garbage
to your AI

PDFs, docs, videos — your AI can't read any of them properly. We fix that in seconds.

Tools

PDF → MD

Feed any PDF to your AI without losing structure or wasting tokens

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Text → MD

Turn messy notes into structured content your AI can work with

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Word → MD

Make your Word docs instantly usable in ChatGPT, Claude & more

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Video → MD

Get any video's content as text your AI can analyze instantly

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Audio → MD

Turn meetings, podcasts & voice notes into searchable text

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URL → MD

Grab any web page's content, ready to paste into your AI

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Prompt Optimizer

Get better AI answers without rewriting your prompt yourself

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Excel → MD

Share spreadsheet data with your AI without copy-paste headaches

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PowerPoint → MD

Extract every slide's content for AI analysis or repurposing

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Image → MD

Pull text out of screenshots, photos & scans in seconds

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EPUB → MD

Make entire books searchable and AI-processable

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MD Cleaner

Clean up messy formatting so your AI gets perfect input

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MD → PDF

Share your Markdown as a polished PDF anyone can open

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MD Merger

Merge multiple docs into one file for a single AI prompt

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Chunker

Split text into AI-friendly chunks

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Token Counter

Know exactly how much a prompt will cost before you send it

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Context Builder

Bundle your files into the perfect context window for any LLM

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System Prompt Gen

Generate expert-level system prompts in seconds, not hours

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Translate MD

Translate any document while keeping all formatting intact

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Stop sending PDFs to your AI.

Your AI doesn't read PDFs directly. It first has to extract the text, decode the layout, ignore the metadata — before it can even start answering. A Markdown file removes all of those steps. Your AI reads it instantly. So you get faster responses, more accurate results, and zero information lost along the way.

Size-wise, it's 100 to 500 times lighter for the same content. A 15 MB PDF becomes a 30 KB .md file. So your AI knowledge base can hold hundreds of documents instead of a handful.

MDisBetter brings 19 free tools together for that — documents, videos, audio, web pages and prompts.

How does it work?

Drop a PDF, a video, an audio file or a URL. MDisBetter extracts the content and gives you a clean Markdown file. So you can send it to your AI, add it to your project files, or store it in your knowledge base — without losing anything.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I convert a PDF to Markdown for free?

Upload your PDF to MDisBetter, click Convert, and get structured Markdown in seconds. No signup, no installation — it works directly in your browser. You get 10 free conversions per day.

Why is Markdown better than PDF for AI?

Markdown reduces token usage by up to 95% compared to PDF. AI models like ChatGPT and Claude process Markdown far more efficiently because it contains only content structure — no fonts, no layout data, no binary overhead.

What file types can MDisBetter convert?

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

Is MDisBetter free?

Yes, completely free. 10 conversions per day, no account needed. All processing happens securely — your files are never stored.

Can I extract a YouTube transcript as Markdown?

Yes. Paste the YouTube video URL, click Convert, and get the full transcript structured as Markdown with headings and timestamps. Perfect for feeding video content to AI tools.

The smartest ways to use this site

Method 01

Master any tool without watching a single YouTube video

AI tools come out faster than YouTube tutorials. Result: you're always behind.

The solution is stupidly simple. Every tool has online documentation. Copy the URL. Paste it into our Web Scraper. MDisBetter scrapes all the content and gives you a complete .md file.

Now open your favorite AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whatever you use. Create a new project and add the .md file to its knowledge base. This file contains the entire documentation of the tool, in a format your AI can actually read and understand perfectly. Every conversation you start in that project will have access to it.

Ask it: "Based on this documentation, create a complete table of contents to learn this tool from scratch." It'll come back with something like 15 modules. Read through them. You'll notice that half of them won't be relevant to you — stuff that's too advanced, too theoretical, or features you'll literally never touch. That's completely normal.

Here's where it gets powerful. Tell the AI who you are, what your job is, what you're trying to accomplish with this tool, and why. Then ask it to regenerate the table of contents based on your specific situation. This time, every single module will be relevant to you. No filler, no fluff — just what you actually need to learn.

Go through the table of contents. If it looks good, ask the AI to break each module into sub-modules with more detail. Once you're happy with the structure, ask it to generate the full course content — module by module, with explanations, examples, and exercises tailored to your level.

Export everything as .md. You now have a complete, personalized training program for any tool — built in minutes, not hours. No YouTube rabbit holes, no generic tutorials that waste your time on things you'll never use. Just exactly what you need, explained the way you need it.

More methods coming soon.

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Choose a PDF

or drag & drop — max 20 MB

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Analyzing…

Generated Markdown

Converting…

Generated Markdown

Video URL(s)

YouTube X / Twitter Instagram Facebook Twitch Vimeo +1000 sites

Transcribing…

Generated Markdown

Spoken language

AI-enhanced (summary, chapters, key points)

🎤

Choose an audio file

MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, WEBM

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Transcribing…

Generated Markdown

Spoken language

Include timestamps AI-enhanced (summary, chapters, key points)

Page URL

Include metadata frontmatter (YAML) 🧪 v2 engine (Scrapling + Trafilatura, 3-tier — beta)

Extracting…

Generated Markdown

📋

Choose Word files

.docx (instant) · .doc / .rtf / .odt / .pages (server-converted) — max 20 MB each

📋 — —

Include metadata frontmatter (YAML)

Converting…

Generated Markdown

Optimizing…

Optimized Prompt

📊

Choose spreadsheets

.xlsx, .xls, .xlsm, .xlsb, .ods, .csv, .tsv — max 10 MB each

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Include metadata frontmatter (YAML) Expand merged cells Auto-transpose wide tables (when cols > 2× rows)

Converting…

Generated Markdown

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Choose presentations

.pptx (instant) · .ppt / .odp / .key (server-converted) — max 20 MB each

📚 — —

Include metadata frontmatter (YAML) Describe embedded images with AI (slower, sharper output)

Converting…

Generated Markdown

📷

Choose images

PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, BMP, HEIC, TIFF — max 16 MB each

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Extracting…

Extracted Text

📖

Choose EPUB files

.epub only — max 50 MB each

📖 — —

Include metadata frontmatter (YAML) Include table of contents

Images Output

Converting…

Generated Markdown

Cleaning…

Cleaned Markdown

📄

Choose a Markdown file

.md or .txt — or drag & drop

📄 — —

or paste directly

Generating…

PDF Preview

Select files to merge

Separator

Merging…

Merged Markdown

Chunk size (tokens)

Overlap (tokens)

Chunking…

Chunks

Counting…

Token Analysis

Select files

System prompt (optional)

Building…

Context Block

Generating…

Generated System Prompt

Target language

📄

Choose a .md file

or drag & drop — or paste text below

Translating…

Translated Markdown

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How credits work

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

Questions

Yes! You get 50 credits every month to use any tool. Basic tools like MD Cleaner or Token Counter cost just 0.5 credit per use. When you run out, credits reset the next month or you can upgrade for more.

Wait for your monthly reset or upgrade to a higher plan. Credits renew on your billing date each month.

Yes, cancel anytime with one click. No questions asked. You keep access until the end of your billing period.

Pro gives you 30,000 credits for $29 — that's 30x more credits than Starter for just 3x the price. Every credit costs less, so you get far more value per dollar.

URL to Markdown for Hugo — Web Content to Static Site

The Hugo migration workflow

Front matter template

Frequently asked questions

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Stop sending PDFs to your AI.

How does it work?

Frequently Asked Questions

Master any tool without watching a single YouTube video

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Stop feeding garbageto your AI

Tools

Stop sending PDFs to your AI.

How does it work?

Frequently Asked Questions

Master any tool without watching a single YouTube video

Choose your plan

How credits work

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Stop feeding garbage
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