PDF is the most common — and most painful — source in AI pipelines. Converting PDF to Markdown (.md) gives your model clean, token-efficient text with the document's structure intact.
Why PDF to Markdown, not raw text?
- A raw PDF text dump loses headings, tables, and reading order.
- Markdown keeps structure with a fraction of the tokens of HTML.
- Clean .md chunks predictably for retrieval-augmented generation.
Scanned PDFs and OCR
Scanned or image-only PDFs have no selectable text. Kit for AI runs OCR automatically to recover it, so even a photographed contract becomes searchable Markdown.
How to convert a PDF to .md
- Upload the PDF or call the API with an API key.
- Choose Markdown output and convert — results are cached for instant re-use.
- Feed the .md straight into your embeddings pipeline, vector store, or agent.