This article details a method for converting PDFs to Markdown using a local LLM (Gemma 3 via Ollama), focusing on privacy and efficiency. It involves rendering PDF pages as images and then using the LLM for content extraction, even from scanned PDFs.
The article provides a tutorial on creating checklists in Markdown for GitHub repositories, issues, and pull requests. It explains how to make task lists more manageable and introduces GitHub’s functionality to enhance these lists for better project tracking and task management.
Mods is a tool to add AI to your command line and pipelines, using Large Language Models to format command output in Markdown, JSON, and other text-based formats.
A comprehensive guide to formatting text in Discord, including colors, bold, italics, underlines, strikethrough, code blocks, and spoiler tags.
The article presents ten lesser-known but highly useful GitHub Actions that can enhance workflow automation, focusing on tasks like YAML validation, markdown link checking, auto-assignment of PRs, commit message linting, dependency caching, Slack notifications, license compliance checking, PR size labeling, security scanning, and Jira integration.
ReaderLM-v2 is a 1.5B parameter language model developed by Jina AI, designed for converting raw HTML into clean markdown and JSON with high accuracy and improved handling of longer contexts. It supports multilingual text in 29 languages and offers advanced features such as direct HTML-to-JSON extraction. The model improves upon its predecessor by addressing issues like repetition in long sequences and enhancing markdown syntax generation.
ReaderLM-v2 is a 1.5B parameter language model designed to convert raw HTML into beautifully formatted markdown or JSON. It supports multilingual input and offers improved longer context handling, stability, and advanced markdown generation capabilities.
MarkItDown is a utility for converting various files to Markdown, including PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Images, Audio, HTML, text-based formats, and ZIP files.
Microsoft has open-sourced MarkItDown, a state-of-the-art application designed to convert various file types into Markdown format for seamless integration, collaboration, and accessibility. The tool supports multiple file formats, including PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, images, audio, HTML, text-based formats, and ZIP files, making it a versatile utility for users across different domains.
A dedicated authoring tool helps writers take full advantage of Markdown. Find one that supports your development projects, documentation tasks, or even daily writing objectives.
