TL;DR MDFlux is a local-first desktop app for Windows and Linux that converts PDFs and office documents into clean, AI-ready Markdown, with built-in OCR for scanned pages and up to 6x fewer tokens.
Title: MDFlux
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๐ Supports PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, EPUB, HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, images, and audio
๐ Built-in OCR (RapidOCR) recovers text from scanned PDFs other tools can't read
๐ฆ Batch-converts entire folders with concurrent processing
๐ Fully offline after first setup, no cloud upload by default
๐งน Choose cleanup mode: off, rule-based, or AI-powered (local or API)
โก Uses 2-6x fewer tokens than vision-model approaches, 5.7x fewer on scanned pages
๐ Built with Tauri 2 (Rust) plus Svelte 5, on top of Microsoft's MarkItDown
It's a nice fit for prepping internal documents for a RAG pipeline while keeping everything private.
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