Have you ever run into frustrating issues when converting technical PDFs to Markdown? Broken table layouts, messy formula formatting, lost code blocks, or having to switch multiple tools just to translate documents and make slides afterward.
I built KolmoPDF to fix all these messy workflows in one tool. Curious to hear what your biggest PDF conversion headaches are, and what features you wish existing tools had.
One thing I'd love is a side-by-side preview that lets me adjust the conversion settings (like whether to merge multi-column layouts or preserve heading hierarchy) and instantly see how the Markdown output changes before I commit. Would save a ton of trial and error on tricky PDFs.
Would love to see a side-by-side preview that lets you compare the original PDF and the converted Markdown in real time, especially for tables and formulas where I often catch small alignment issues before exporting.
Formula recognition on a tricky research paper actually came through clean, which is usually where converters fall apart for me. The translation step kept the table headers intact too, which was a nice surprise.
Tried it on a research paper with messy equations and it actually nailed the LaTeX output, even nested fractions came through clean. The layout-preserving translation is a nice touch for skimming foreign docs.
how well does the layout preservation actually hold up on more complex academic papers with lots of figures and multi-column layouts?
The layout-preserving translation feature is a really thoughtful touch, most converters butcher formatting the moment you throw a second language at them.