Clipboard to Markdown - Paste Rich Text as Markdown

How to use this tool

1. Copy rich text. Copy some formatted content from a webpage, Google Doc, Word file, or Notion page.
2. Paste it in. Click the paste area and press Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on Mac). The rendered preview shows exactly what was pasted.
3. Adjust options if needed. Toggle "Strip images" or "Optimize for AI prompt" and choose heading/bullet style to match your target.
4. Copy or download the Markdown. The Markdown output updates instantly. Copy it into your AI prompt or download it as a .md file.

What this tool does

Pasting formatted content directly into most AI chat boxes flattens everything to plain text - links become bare words, headings lose their weight, and tables collapse into a run-on paragraph. This tool captures the rich-text version of whatever you copied (the same version your word processor would paste), shows you a preview so you can confirm nothing important was lost, and converts it to clean Markdown you can hand to an AI prompt without losing structure.

How it works

When you paste, the browser's clipboard actually carries two versions of your selection: a plain-text copy and, when the source supports it, an HTML copy that preserves formatting. This tool reads the HTML version, sanitizes it, renders it in the preview pane so you can see exactly what was captured, then walks the resulting DOM tree to produce Markdown - headings become # prefixes, bold and italic become **text** and *text*, links become [text](url), and tables become GitHub-flavored Markdown pipe tables.

Image handling

Content copied from Word, Google Docs, or Notion often embeds images as large base64 data directly in the clipboard - fine for a document, wasteful in an AI prompt. By default this tool replaces images with a short text placeholder like [Image: description] so the structure of your content stays visible without the token cost. Turn off "Strip images" if you want standard Markdown image syntax instead; if the source image data is large, the tool warns you how much it will add to the output.

When you'd use this

• Pasting a formatted section of a Google Doc into an AI prompt for review or editing
• Handing a webpage excerpt to an AI assistant without losing its links
• Turning a Notion page or Word document into Markdown for a README or wiki
• Cleaning up a copy-pasted email or Slack message before sharing it as Markdown

Clipboard to Markdown vs. HTML to Markdown

This site's HTML to Markdown converter is built for developers who already have HTML source code - copied from a browser's "View Source," an exported CMS page, or written by hand. This tool is for the more common case: you copied something normally (Ctrl+V) from a document or webpage and want the Markdown equivalent without ever looking at HTML. Both tools share the same underlying conversion engine, so the Markdown output quality is identical for the same content.