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Claude Pro Tip:
Convert PDFs to Markdown Before Uploading
Stop uploading raw PDFs to Claude. Here’s why it matters:
When Claude processes a PDF, it renders each page as an image and runs vision analysis. That burns tokens fast, especially for long documents.
Convert your PDF to a markdown or plain text file first. Claude receives clean, directly tokenizable text instead of image data. Same content, significantly lower token cost.
You can use tools like Marker, Docling, or even a simple copy-paste into a .md file.
Published at
2026-03-27 14:05:46 UTCEvent JSON
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