PDF to Markdown vs DocNavy

PDF Lift turns any PDF into clean, editable Markdown, right on your iPhone or iPad, 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 side by side with 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 device. Features - Convert any PDF to Markdown, with headings, lists, links, and structure preserved - On-device OCR for scanned and image-only PDFs - Side-by-side review: original PDF · Markdown source · live preview - Full-screen review mode for distraction-free reading and editing - Tables reconstructed as Markdown, including bordered and grid tables - Images extracted and exported right alongside your Markdown - Export your Markdown and share it or save to Files - Previous Conversions: every conversion is saved on your device so you can reopen it anytime - Open password-protected PDFs - Import options: choose whether to extract images or limit the page range - Scan Document: scan paper documents with your camera and convert them to Markdown, entirely on your device - Works on both iPhone and iPad 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 device using Apple's on-device frameworks. There are no accounts, no cloud upload, and no data collection, so your documents stay yours. Free & Pro Pro removes the per-document page limit, so you can convert entire PDFs of any length. Choose a monthly or yearly plan with Family Sharing, or buy Lifetime once and keep it forever on every device you own. By downloading this app, you agree to Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Turn PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and 10 more formats into clean Markdown — entirely on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Your documents never leave the device. No server, no account, no upload. WHAT IT CONVERTS • PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT, EPUB • XLS, XLSX, XLSB, ODS, CSV • PPT, PPTX, ODP WHAT SURVIVES THE CONVERSION Tables, merged cells, footnotes, headings, bold and italic, nested lists, math formulas as LaTeX, embedded images written out next to the Markdown, and — when you convert a whole folder — the folder structure itself. SCANNED PAGES, HANDLED PROPERLY Pages with no text layer go through on-device OCR. The language is detected automatically, so a Japanese invoice and an English contract in the same batch both come out right. Nothing is sent anywhere to make that happen. HONEST ABOUT QUALITY Every conversion comes with a per-page report: how many pages were read directly, how many needed OCR, how many failed, and why. Most converters hand you a file and hope you do not check. DocNavy tells you what it actually managed to read. BUILT FOR MARKDOWN PEOPLE Made for Obsidian, Logseq, Bear and plain-text vaults. Preview the result, read the raw Markdown side by side, then save the .md file wherever you keep your notes. PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY DocNavy makes no network requests at all. You do not have to take our word for it: turn on Settings › Privacy & Security › App Privacy Report, use the app for a few days, and the domain list for DocNavy will stay empty. The App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected because that is literally what happens. FREE AND PRO The free tier is the whole app: all 14 formats, on-device OCR, whole-folder conversion, zip export and the full diagnostics report — every page of every file, however long. One limit applies: 5 documents a day. Pro removes it and adds one convenience: folders you grant are re-checked when the app opens, so files added to them later convert on their own. No watermark, no upsell. Pro comes two ways: a monthly subscription with a 3-day free trial, or a one-time purchase that never renews. Either way it is a Universal Purchase, so buying on iPhone unlocks iPad and Mac too. Privacy Policy: https://docnavy.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://docnavy.com/terms