{
  "id": 3601339,
  "title": "Building Local-First Web Apps: Parsing HTML and PDFs to Markdown in the Browser",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/building-local-first-web-apps-parsing-html-and-pdfs-to-markdown-in",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-26T21:40:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/__7b51d76b10fdb4b/building-local-first-web-apps-parsing-html-and-pdfs-to-markdown-in-the-browser-3p35"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}