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Convert Excalidraw to Markdown.

Drop an Excalidraw board and get the text on it as a clean Markdown list. It runs entirely in your browser, so your file never leaves your device.

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Preset

Optimize for AI & RAG

Extra cleanup for LLM ingestion: strip HTML, fix smart quotes, tidy Unicode and spacing.

Add YAML front matter

Prepend a metadata block (title, source, date, word & token counts) for knowledge bases and RAG.

Add table of contents

Build a linked index from the headings. Handy for long documents.

Export RAG chunks (.json)

Split the result into retrieval-ready chunks. Download per file from the result panel.

Most converters quietly upload your documents to a server. This one physically can't.

01Why

A sketch holds
hidden words.

An .excalidraw file is a JSON whiteboard. Buried in it are the labels you typed on the canvas. This pulls those out as a tidy Markdown bullet list.

EXCALsketch.excalidraw

{

"type": "excalidraw",

"elements": [

{ "type": "rectangle" },

{ "type": "text", "text": "Idea" },

{ "type": "text", "text": "Plan" }

]

}

MDsketch.md

# Diagram (Excalidraw)

- Idea

- Plan

02Features

Everything you
actually need.

An Excalidraw board in, the typed text out as Markdown, with no server and no account anywhere.

It never leaves your browser

Your .excalidraw is read and parsed on your device. Nothing is uploaded to any server, ever.

local
EXCALsketch.excalidraw

# Heading

- point one

3 chunks

AI & RAG ready

Optional cleanup, YAML front matter, a table of contents and RAG chunk export.

Works offline

Once the page has loaded you can switch off your connection and it keeps converting.

# Diagram (Excalidraw)

- Idea

- Plan

Just the text

The words written on the canvas are pulled out as a list. The drawing itself is not.

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Unicode safe

Accents, symbols and non-Latin scripts come through intact as UTF-8.

Free, and unlimited

No sign-up, no quotas, no watermarks. Convert one file or a thousand; it all runs the same way, on your own device.

03Fidelity

Words stay,
the drawing goes.

Honest about what comes through, and what doesn't. Only the typed text on the board survives. The sketch around it does not.

Kept

2
  • The diagram heading
  • Text from every text element

Dropped

4
  • Shapes
  • Free-hand drawings
  • Positions
  • Styling
EXCALsketch.excalidraw
Diagram (Excalidraw)
kept

- Idea

- Plan

- Review

kept
dropped
dropped
04FAQ

Excalidraw
questions.

Everything worth knowing before you drop in a board.

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