← MDifying document to Markdown converter
Obsidian will happily store a PDF in your vault, but it stays a PDF: you cannot link into it, search it the way you search notes, or edit a line. Converting turns each document into a note that behaves like every other note you have.
Convert a file now — it is free and runs in your browser
Drop up to twenty documents together and download the zip. The filenames survive, so the notes arrive named the way you already think about them.
Into a folder of its own — Imported works — rather than loose among your existing notes. Obsidian picks them up immediately; there is nothing to import or index.
This is the part no converter can do for you, and the part that makes a vault worth having. A converted document is a note with nothing pointing at it until you decide what it connects to.
Headings become headings, so the outline view and the table of contents work straight away. Tables stay tables. What does not survive is page layout — columns, text boxes, headers and footers, exact fonts — because Markdown has no way to express any of it. For a document you intend to read as a note, that is a feature.
A photographed page or a screenshot can become a note too — the text is read with OCR on your own device, in English or Spanish. It is approximate, so it belongs in a vault as something to check rather than something to trust, but it beats a note that is only an image.