Building Local-First Web Apps: Parsing HTML and PDFs to Markdown in the Browser
Local-first and privacy-focused web utilities are having a massive comeback. With browser engines becoming faster and WebAssembly/Web Workers maturing, there is rarely a reason to push sensitive user documents to an external backend for simple conversions. While building MD-Convert (a zero-upload document to Markdown converter), I explored how to parse real-world documents into clean Markdown…
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