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Convert image to Markdown

Turn an image of a document into Markdown with headings, lists, tables and LaTeX maths.

Result

Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.

3 free pages a day, no sign-up.

How it works

  1. Step 1
    Upload the image
  2. Step 2
    We detect headings, lists and tables
  3. Step 3
    Copy the Markdown

Why use this Image to Markdown converter

Structure you can render

Headings, bold labels, lists and tables are marked up, so the result looks like the original when rendered.

Ready for notes apps

Paste straight into Obsidian, Notion, GitHub or any Markdown editor.

LLM-friendly

Markdown is the format language models read best, so the output drops straight into a prompt.

What people use it for

Models that do this well

The free tool picks one for you. With the API you choose, and can set fallbacks so a failed page is retried on the next model.

1Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 credits / page2Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.google/gemini-flash3 credits / page3PaddleOCR-VLOpen-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.paddle/paddleocr-vl2 credits / page4MarkerHosted version of the open-source Marker and Surya models. Strong on books and papers.datalab/marker14 credits / page

Do it with the API

Converting more than a few files? The same conversion is one request. Pick any model, or let auto choose.

Get API key

curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

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