Introducing PDF to Markdown Support in Adobe PDF Extract APINews
Developers have been using the Adobe PDF Extract API to programmatically unlock structured content from PDFs with high-fidelity JSON output. Today, we’re expanding that capability with a highly requested addition: 🚀 PDF to Markdown Output Is Now AvailableIn addition to structured JSON, the Extract API can now convert PDFs directly into clean, well-formatted Markdown.This gives you two powerful output options: Structured JSON → Ideal for data pipelines, analytics, compliance workflows, and fine-grained structural processing. Markdown → Optimized for LLM ingestion, documentation systems, search indexing, and content publishing workflows. Same extraction intelligence. New output format. Why Markdown?If you're building modern AI or content workflows, chances are you’re transforming JSON into Markdown somewhere downstream anyway.Now you don’t have to.The new Markdown output: Preserves document hierarchy (headings, sections) Converts tables into native Markdown table syntax Maintains