Open-source MDFlux converts PDFs and scans to LLM-ready Markdown, fully offline
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-19
Open-source GitHub project MDFlux (196 stars) is a local-first desktop app that converts PDF, Word, PPT, scans, EPUB, images, audio and more into clean structured Markdown for LLM consumption.
Highlights:
- Runs fully offline — your documents never leave your machine
- OCR support for scanned PDFs and batch folder processing
- Claims up to 6× fewer tokens than shipping pages to vision models, with no per-page cost
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