Privacy Policy
What pdftomd does with your files and your visit: the files stay on your device; the visit leaves a few ordinary traces.
Last updated: 2026-11-13
The short version
- Your PDFs never leave your device. The converter runs inside your browser tab. Files are read from your disk into the tab's memory and converted there. They are not sent to our server or anyone else's, and we never see them.
- You don't need an account, and we don't ask for your name or email to convert anything.
- Visiting the site leaves the ordinary traces any website leaves: our hosting provider handles your requests, and we may count page views. Details below.
Your files and their text
Conversion, OCR, token counting, chunking and the .zip downloads all happen in your browser. The PDF, the text extracted from it, any password you type for it, and the Markdown we produce stay in the tab until you close it, copy the text or save a download. We have no copy, so we can't share, sell, train on or lose your documents.
You can check this yourself: open your browser's developer tools, go to the network panel and convert a file. No request carries the file or its text.
What your browser downloads from us
To work, the page downloads its code, fonts and, the first time you convert a scanned page, a text recognition model of about 6 to 21 MB. These come from our own domain. The model is kept in your browser's cache storage so later scans start sooner; you can remove it by clearing this site's data in your browser settings.
What the server sees
pdftomd is hosted on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare receives the technical details of each request to deliver the page: your IP address, the address of the page, your browser's user agent and the time. Cloudflare uses this to deliver the site and protect it from attacks, as described in Cloudflare's privacy policy. We don't combine it with anything else to identify you.
Statistics
We may count visits with an analytics service to learn which pages are useful. If we do, it records the pages you view, the site that referred you, your browser type and your approximate country, and it never receives your files or their text. If we ever use an analytics service that sets cookies, the site will ask for your consent first and load it only if you agree.
Cookies and local storage
The converter itself needs no cookies. The site stores a few small settings in your browser:
| What | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your language choice | Cookie | To show the site in the language you picked |
| Light or dark theme | Local storage | To remember your theme |
| Your OCR model choice | Local storage | To preselect it next time |
| The OCR model files | Cache storage | So scans don't download it again |
| Your consent choice, if we ask | Cookie | To remember your answer |
None of these identify you, and none are shared with third parties.
Accounts
The site has a sign-in page for the people who run it. Visitors don't need it, and converting files never asks you to sign in.
Children
pdftomd is a general-purpose tool and isn't directed at children. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age.
Your rights
Because we don't hold your files and don't keep personal profiles, there is usually nothing about you for us to show, correct or delete. If you think we hold information about you, or you have a question about this policy, write to hello@pdftomd.net and we'll answer.
Changes
If we change how the site handles data, we'll update this page and the date at the top. A change that would send your files anywhere would mean a different product, and we would say so plainly on the converter itself.