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Flashdown
Convert PDF, DOCX & TXT to Markdown — right in your browser
Drop in a PDF, DOCX, or TXT file and get clean Markdown back in seconds. No uploads, no signup, no server — everything runs client-side in your browser tab. Built for devs, technical writers, and Obsidian/Notion/Logseq users who live in plain text.
Hey everyone 👋
I built Flashdown because I kept converting docs to Markdown for my Obsidian vault and every existing tool wanted me to upload my file to some server first. That felt unnecessary for something as simple as text extraction.
Flashdown does the whole conversion in your browser — no backend, no file ever leaves your machine. Drop a PDF, DOCX, or TXT file in, get clean Markdown out. Works offline once the page loads.
Right now it handles:
PDF (extracts real text layers — not OCR yet, that's next)
DOCX (headings, bold/italic, links, lists, tables)
TXT (cleans up spacing/line breaks into proper Markdown)
Would love feedback on:
What other formats you'd want (HTML? RTF? Google Docs export?)
Edge cases where the Markdown output looks wrong
Whether OCR for scanned PDFs is worth building next
Try it here: https://flashdown.co.in — no signup needed, just drop a file.
About Flashdown on Product Hunt
“ Convert PDF, DOCX & TXT to Markdown — right in your browser”
Flashdown was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #93 on the daily leaderboard. Drop in a PDF, DOCX, or TXT file and get clean Markdown back in seconds. No uploads, no signup, no server — everything runs client-side in your browser tab. Built for devs, technical writers, and Obsidian/Notion/Logseq users who live in plain text.
On the analytics side, Flashdown competes within Productivity, Notes and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Flashdown performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Flashdown?
Flashdown was hunted by DEEPANSHU. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Flashdown including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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