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Flashdown
Convert PDF, DOCX & TXT to Markdown — right in your browser
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Convert PDF, DOCX & TXT to Markdown — right in your browser
10 followers
Drop in a PDF, DOCX, or TXT file and get clean Markdown back in seconds. No uploads, no signup, no server — everything runs client-side in your browser tab. Built for devs, technical writers, and Obsidian/Notion/Logseq users who live in plain text.
Dragged a 40-page PDF in and the headings and code blocks came out clean, no server hop needed. Love that I can close the tab and keep my docs private.
@elelcizehr93509 That's exactly it — 40 pages parsed locally, no intermediary server seeing your document. One thing that surprised early users: it handles scanned PDFs with text layers too (just not pure image scans yet). Did you have any sections that lost formatting, or did it hold up all the way?
One thing I'd love to see is batch processing, drag in a whole folder of mixed files and get a zip of converted markdowns back. Would save a ton of time when migrating older notes into Obsidian.
@salim716005 Batch is on the roadmap, but single conversions are rock solid right now. Does handling files one at a time work for your workflow, or is it a dealbreaker?
The client-side approach is genuinely useful since nothing leaves your machine, and the Markdown output was surprisingly clean on a messy PDF I threw at it. Will be keeping this bookmarked.
@etinkocako7yqn great to see that you found my tool useful more updates are on the roadmap, open to suggestions.
runs locally in the browser and still gives me clean markdown from a messy pdf, exactly the kind of tool i wish existed an hour ago.
@c_kurtar55949 That's the exact use case I built this for — the moment you realize you need plain text but your doc is locked in Word/PDF hell. Since you just used it, curious: what would make you use this next time instead of manually copying? Speed, or something else?
The fact that everything runs client-side with zero uploads is such a thoughtful call, especially for anyone handling sensitive docs. Love that it just respects your privacy without making a big deal about it.
@ercanukyg That's the core of it — the moment I realized most converters upload your docs to their servers just to extract text, I knew it was wrong. Especially for legal docs, contracts, medical stuff. Your file shouldn't need to leave your machine for something this straightforward.