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.

Does Jekyll handle the structured Markdown the converter outputs?

Yes — out of the box. Jekyll's default kramdown processor renders H1/H2/H3 as semantic headings, lists as lists, fenced code blocks as code, and pipe-tables as tables. The converter's output works in any standard Jekyll theme without modification.

Will GitHub Pages build a long video transcript without issues?

Yes — Jekyll handles posts up to several megabytes without trouble. A 90-minute video transcript is typically 50-150KB of Markdown, well within normal limits. Build times stay sub-second per file.

How do I add a YouTube embed to a Jekyll post?

Jekyll passes raw HTML through Markdown by default. Paste the YouTube embed iframe at the top of the post body, then continue with the transcript Markdown. For cleaner syntax, use a Jekyll include or shortcode that wraps the iframe with the right responsive CSS.

Can I categorise transcripts by speaker for "all episodes with guest X" pages?

Yes — add a custom frontmatter field ( guest: ) and use Jekyll's collection or category logic to generate per-guest archive pages. For more flexibility, add a Jekyll plugin like jekyll-archives that auto-generates archive pages from any frontmatter field.

How does this compare to using YouTube's auto-captions on the video itself?

YouTube captions live on YouTube's domain — Google indexes them in the context of YouTube's page, not yours. A transcript on your Jekyll site lives on your domain, ranks for organic queries you care about, and feeds your site's topical authority. Different surfaces, different SEO outcomes.

Video to Markdown for Jekyll — Video-to-Post Pipeline

Why Jekyll users specifically benefit from video-to-Markdown

Jekyll's native filename convention (YYYY-MM-DD-title.md) maps perfectly onto how video episodes are published — by date, with a slug. The standard frontmatter (layout, title, date, categories, tags) absorbs the metadata a video transcript carries naturally. Once converted, a video transcript is a _posts/ file in the structurally simplest sense — no plugins required, no theme customisation needed for basic publishing.

The workflow

Record or identify the source video, paste its URL into Video to Markdown (or upload the MP4 directly), get back structured Markdown with chapter headings. Add Jekyll frontmatter, save as _posts/2026-04-15-episode-47-evaluation.md, git push. GitHub Pages builds the post; the page is live in 60 seconds.

---
layout: post
title: "Episode 47: Why Evaluation Is Eating ML"
date: 2026-04-15 09:00:00 -0700
categories: [podcast, interviews]
tags: [ml-evaluation, interviews, marcus-lee]
youtube_id: dQw4w9WgXcQ
duration: "42:18"
guest: "Marcus Lee"
---

Embed plus transcript pattern

Top of the post: an HTML embed of the YouTube video (Jekyll passes raw HTML through Markdown by default). Below the embed: the structured transcript with chapter headings as H2 anchors. Visitors who prefer video stay; visitors who prefer reading scroll. Both behaviours feed search-engine engagement signals.

Pair with PDF-to-Jekyll (PDF for Jekyll), URL clipping (URL for Jekyll), and audio (Audio for Jekyll) for a complete content-repurposing pipeline.

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

Video to Markdown for Jekyll — SEO Posts From Video Content

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