Claude workflow

Prepare PDFs for Claude with cleaner text, less page noise, and fewer surprises.

Claude handles long context well, but long context still benefits from clean source material. PDF2X helps you normalize PDFs before synthesis, review, extraction, or comparison work.

Open Converter OCR path

Useful when you want the document to read more like text and less like a scanned or layout-bound artifact.

When it helps most

Claude benefits from long context, but clean context is still better context.

Summaries

Cleaner source text makes it easier for summaries to reflect meaning instead of page furniture and broken formatting.

Extraction

Repaired paragraphs, normalized lists, and visible headings make document fields easier to identify and prompt against.

Review

Text-first exports are easier to compare, annotate, and quote back than screenshots of PDF pages or raw layout fragments.

Practical guidance

Choose the output based on how you plan to work.

Use Markdown when

You want headings and list structure to remain visible during review, drafting, or extraction prompt design.

Use plain text when

You want the flattest export possible for direct analysis or chunking and do not need light structural hints.

Use OCR when

The PDF is scanned, photographed, or inconsistent page by page. Auto mode is a good default when only some pages need OCR.