PDF to Markdown Guide

Learn to develop your own PDF to Markdown software to automatically convert PDF files into Markdown format.

Remember that in order to use our Tool Guides, you need to have previous knowledge about the basics to processing a PDF with our REST API. We strongly recommend that you read the Processing a PDF guide before starting this one.

Convert PDF to Markdown

The following example will show you how to extract the content of a PDF document and convert it into Markdown format.

You can convert PDF files to Markdown very easily using the PDF to Markdown tool, as shown in this code:

PDF to Markdown


require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Ilovepdf\Ilovepdf;

$ilovepdf = new Ilovepdf('PUBLIC_KEY', 'SECRET_KEY');

$task = $ilovepdf->newTask('pdfmarkdown');

$task->addFile('path/to/file.pdf');

$task->execute();

$task->download(__DIR__);

You can add as many files as you want to process. To convert your files, simply choose the PDF to Markdown tool.

The REST API processes your documents and returns the extracted content in Markdown format.