Which AI Prep Tool Do I Need? A Quick Decision Guide
Match your file or text to the right preparation tool: PDFs, transcripts, screenshots, web pages, videos and long context.
Match input to tool
A quick map:
- PDF, text-heavy: PDF to Clean Text
- PDF with structure: PDF to Markdown
- Transcript: Transcript Cleaner
- Image or screenshot: Screenshot to Text
- Web page or HTML: Markdown Converter
- Screen recording: Video to GIF
- Many files: Batch Document Extractor
Then measure and trim
Check size with the Token Counter and trim with the Context Compressor if you are near a limit.
Private by default
All processing happens on your device, so you can prepare confidential material without uploading it to another service.
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- PDF to Clean Text — Strips headers, footers, page numbers, and hyphenation. Outputs TXT or Markdown.
- Transcript Cleaner — Removes timestamps, filler words, and duplicate speaker labels.
- Context Compressor — Reduce token usage with compression strategies tuned for LLMs.
- Markdown Converter — Paste HTML, DOCX, or webpage text and get tidy Markdown.
- Screenshot to Text — Extract readable text from any image with browser-side OCR.
- Video to GIF for AI Vision — Convert MP4, MOV, or WebM clips to compact GIFs that fit Claude, Gemini, and GPT vision uploads. Runs entirely in your browser.
- PDF to Markdown — Headings, lists, and structure preserved. Perfect for Obsidian, GitHub, RAG, and LLM context.
- Token Counter — Live token, character, and context-window meter for any prompt. Uses official tiktoken encoders.
- Batch Document Extractor — Drop PDFs, images, Word docs, and text files together. Get clean text out — combined or zipped one-per-file. Browser-side OCR included.
Tools mentioned
PDF to Clean Text
Extract clean, AI-ready text from any PDF.
PDF to Markdown
Convert any PDF to clean Markdown.
Transcript Cleaner
Turn messy transcripts into readable prose.
Screenshot to Text
OCR screenshots into AI-ready text.
Markdown Converter
Convert anything to clean Markdown.
Video to GIF for AI Vision
Trim and shrink clips into GIFs ready for AI vision models.
Token Counter
Count tokens for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Context Compressor
Shrink prompts. Keep meaning.
Batch Document Extractor
Extract text from many documents at once.
Frequently asked
Are the tools free?
Yes, and they run in your browser without uploading files.
Can I chain tools?
Yes. A common chain is extract, clean, count tokens, then compress.
Keep reading
How to Prepare PDFs for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
A practical guide to extracting clean, AI-ready text from PDFs — born-digital and scanned — so ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini answer accurately and don't waste tokens on headers, footers, and page numbers.
The Best Way to Feed Long Documents to Claude (and Other Long-Context Models)
Claude's 200K-token context is generous, but you'll still want to clean, compress, and structure long documents before sending them. Here's a step-by-step playbook.
Cleaning Whisper Transcripts for AI Summaries
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