Measured numbers, honest comparisons, and practical workflows for turning documents into AI-ready Markdown.
Your file isn’t too big — it’s too expensive in tokens, and most of them are avoidable. The fix, in order of impact.
Everyone repeats “30–60% fewer tokens.” We measured it per format — including the one where Markdown loses.
Four engines, four different jobs — including the cases where the engine we build on is the wrong choice.
Who actually needs local conversion, what “local” has to mean, and how to verify any converter’s claims yourself.
Retrieval quality is decided before the chunker runs. A practical pre-processing pipeline, start to finish.
Drag-and-drop batches, watch folders, the CLI, and Shortcuts — four ways to convert at folder scale, all local.
Turn trapped documents into real, linkable notes — plus an inbox folder that converts itself into your vault.
Milldown turns anything into AI-ready Markdown — entirely on your Mac. Free for 14 days.
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