PDF Lift: PDF to Markdown

PDF Lift turns any PDF into clean, editable Markdown, right on your iPhone or iPad, completely offline.

Open a PDF and get back well-structured Markdown in seconds, with headings, lists, tables, links, and images all preserved. It works on ordinary text PDFs and on scanned or photographed documents alike. Built-in on-device OCR reads image-only pages, so you can pull text out of a scan without sending anything to the cloud. Review the result side by side with the original, make any tweaks, and export. Whether you're lifting quotes from a research paper, turning a scanned handout into notes, or getting a document into your favorite Markdown editor, PDF Lift does the tedious formatting for you. Nothing ever leaves your device: no account, no servers, no tracking.

Features

• Convert any PDF to Markdown, with headings, lists, links, and structure preserved
• On-device OCR for scanned and image-only PDFs (powered by Apple Vision)
• Side-by-side review: original PDF · Markdown source · live preview
• Full-screen review mode for distraction-free reading and editing
• Tables reconstructed as Markdown, including bordered and grid tables
• Images extracted and exported right alongside your Markdown
• Export your Markdown and share it or save to Files
• Recents: every conversion is saved on your device so you can reopen it anytime
• Open password-protected PDFs
• Import options: choose whether to extract images or limit the page range
• Works on both iPhone and iPad

Also handles

• Blockquotes, inline code, and code blocks
• Emoji baked into PDFs as images, recovered back into real text
• Words split across line breaks, automatically rejoined
• Bare links turned into clickable Markdown links cloud upload, and no data collection, so your documents stay yours.

Free & Pro PDF Lift is free to convert up to 5 pages per document, plus one full-length conversion on the house to try it out. A one-time Pro unlock ($4.99, no subscription) removes the per-document page limit, so you can convert entire PDFs of any length. Buy once and it's yours forever, on every device you own.

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