PDF Lift: PDFs to Markdown

Convert any PDF to Markdown

Only for Mac

$2.99

Mac

PDF Lift turns any PDF into clean, editable Markdown, right on your Mac, 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. Parse image-only pages, so you can pull text out of a scan without sending anything to the cloud. Review the result beside 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 Mac. Features - Convert any PDF to Markdown, with headings, lists, links, and structure preserved - On-device OCR for scanned and image-only PDFs, with no setup and no sign-in - Two-pane review: your Markdown beside the original PDF, or beside a live formatted preview, with a divider you can drag - A full formatting toolbar above the editor: bold, italic, headings, links, lists, quotes, indentation, and table editing - Tables reconstructed as Markdown, including bordered and grid tables - Images extracted and saved right alongside your Markdown - Export a single Markdown file, or a folder holding your Markdown and its images, or copy the whole document to the clipboard with one shortcut - Previous Conversions sidebar: conversions are kept on your Mac with a page thumbnail, ready to reopen, export, or delete - Choose how many to keep: the last 5, 10, 25, or 50, or none at all - Open password-protected PDFs - Drop a PDF anywhere in the window or onto the Dock icon, open one from the Finder, or press Command O - Menu bar commands and keyboard shortcuts throughout - Light, Dark, or follow your system appearance - No page limits, ever 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 Private by design Every conversion runs on your Mac using Apple's on-device frameworks. There are no accounts, no cloud upload, and no data collection, so your documents stay yours. One-time purchase PDF Lift is a paid appo in-app purchases, and no page limits. Buy it once and convert PDFs of any length, for as long as you like. By downloading this app, you agree to Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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This update includes bug fixes and performance improvements to make PDF Lift better.

Version 1.2

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    Information

    Seller
    • Zain Aaban
    Size
    • 1.8 MB
    Category
    • Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Zain Aaban
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    • Supports

    • Family Sharing

      Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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