Turn any document into
clean, editable Markdown
Drop in a Word doc, spreadsheet, PDF, or slide deck and get tidy Markdown in one click — then edit it visually. Perfect for feeding clean context to your LLM.
Runs entirely on your machine. No account, no upload, no runtime to install.
See it in action — importing a PDF and getting editable Markdown back.
Import from any format
Pourdown converts your files to Markdown and keeps your images — most converters just throw them away. Headings, lists, tables and links come along too.
Word
Headings, bold & italic, nested lists, tables, links and embedded images — all preserved.
Excel
Each sheet becomes a clean table, dates auto-formatted, embedded images pulled out.
Headings and reading order inferred, tables rebuilt, images extracted. (Text-based PDFs.)
PowerPoint
Slide titles become headings, body text becomes paragraphs, images extracted.
Exactly what's kept and today's limitations are in the Importing guide →
Feed cleaner context to your LLM — for a fraction of the tokens.
Markdown is up to 96% more token-efficient than raw PDF when fed to a language model (community benchmarks). Convert once, prompt for less.
Everything you need to write
A focused editor that gets out of your way.
Visual editing
Write the way it looks — no raw Markdown symbols to wrestle with.
Keeps your images
Embedded pictures are extracted and shown inline, not dropped on the floor.
Offline & private
Every conversion happens on your device. Your documents never leave it.
Themes to match your taste
Seven built-in editor themes — GitHub Light/Dark, Dracula, Nord, Solarized and more.
Rich Markdown syntax
Headings, tables, task lists, code blocks, blockquotes and more — full GitHub-flavored Markdown.
English & 中文
A fully bilingual interface — English and Traditional Chinese, switchable anytime.
Native, light, and instant
Built on Tauri v2 instead of Electron — it uses your system's built-in webview rather than bundling a whole browser, so the download stays small, it opens fast, and there's nothing extra to install before your first conversion.
Get Pourdown
Convert your first document to clean Markdown in the next minute.