How is this different from PDF to Markdown?

PDF to Text gives you plain text with no formatting. PDF to Markdown preserves headings and structure.

Does it work on scanned PDFs?

Only if the PDF has a text layer. Scanned documents that are just images won't produce text — you'd need OCR.

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Clean text output with no markup.

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