MarkPDFdown Desktop Version is now available!!! https://github.com/MarkPDFdown/markpdfdown-desktop

A desktop application that converts PDF documents to Markdown format using Large Language Model (LLM) visual recognition.

✨ Quick Start

npx -y markpdfdown

Features

• Multi-LLM Support: OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Ollama (local models), and OpenAI Responses API
• High-Quality Conversion: Leverages LLM vision capabilities for accurate PDF to Markdown conversion
• Side-by-Side Preview: View original PDF pages alongside generated Markdown
• Math & Code Support: Full support for LaTeX equations (KaTeX) and syntax-highlighted code blocks
• Multi-Language UI: English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, and Persian
• Parallel Processing: Configurable worker instances for faster conversion
• Progress Tracking: Real-time status updates and per-page retry support
• Local Storage: SQLite database for task persistence

🐛 Bug Fixes

• c5d1a6a - Fix missing RUST compiler issue when building fastuuid in CI environment (commit by @jorben)

🔧 Chores

• fbb1a6d - update version (commit by @jorben)

Contributors

• @jorben

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 7bf7005 - update dockerfile, fix uv path issue (commit by @jorben)

🔧 Chores

• ff966b4 - update version (commit by @jorben)

Contributors

• @jorben

♻️ Refactors

• da51adf - The project was comprehensively refactored, with litellm introduced as the LLM client library, and input/output parameters were optimized. (commit by @jorben)

Contributors

• @jorben

✨ New Features

• 1f6915f - Add multilingual README translations (PR #22 by @clearclown)
• af25adb - Add reasoning_effort parameter support (commit by @jorben)

Contributors

• @jorben
• @clearclown

Full Changelog: 1.0.8...1.0.10

What's Changed

• fix: Fixed the issue where hunyuan does not support empty system_prompt by @jorben in #15

Full Changelog: 1.0.7...1.0.8

Contributors

• @jorben

What's Changed

• fix: Fix the path spelling error in the Readme by @jorben in #8
• fix: Fix the OpenAI API 400 Bad Request issue #10 by @jorben in #11

New Contributors

• @jorben made their first contribution in #8

Full Changelog: 1.0.6...1.0.7

Contributors

• @jorben

1.0.6 Use LaTeX syntax for formulas

24 March 2025

• chore: Compress demo images 9062d01
• chore: Emphasize the use of LaTeX syntax for mathematical formulas 2aef544
• chore: Add ChangeLog action 3587a00

Full Changelog: 1.0.5...1.0.6

1.0.5 支持图片转Markdown

22 March 2025

• refactor: Refactor PDFWorker, build a FileWorker base class to facilitate future extension for supporting more file types d4e6398
• feat: Added support for converting images (JPG/PNG/BMP) to Markdown #6 1eab0db

Full Changelog: 1.0.4...1.0.5