People now convert PDFs to Markdown for AI tools
Many people used to turn documents into PDFs so they would look clean and be easy to share. Now the direction is often reversed for AI work. PDFs can use many tokens when they are given to tools like Claude, which can make them more expensive or harder to handle.
This is a problem because many manuals, specs, and official documents are still ed as PDFs. For AI reading, summarizing, or analysis, is often easier to work with than a PDF.
Key points
- PDFs can use many tokens when sent to .
- Many specs and manuals are still only available as PDFs.
- is often easier for to read and process.
- The old habit was turning documents into PDFs; the newer often starts by turning PDFs back into text.