Convert tar to Markdown.
Drop a .tar, .gz or .tgz archive and every inner file comes out as Markdown. The archive is unpacked in your browser, so it never leaves your device.
Drag & drop your files
or
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.
One bundle,
many files.
A tarball packs a whole folder tree into a single file, often gzip compressed as .tar.gz or .tgz. This unpacks it and turns every readable inner file into Markdown under its own path.
archive.tar
docs/guide.md
notes.txt
data/table.csv
readme.html
# docs/guide.md
Getting started
---
# notes.txt
Plain notes content.
Everything you
actually need.
Archive in, a Markdown file per entry out, with no server and no account anywhere.
It never leaves your browser
Your .tar or .gz is extracted and converted on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to any server, ever.
# 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.
# docs/guide.md
---
# notes.txt
Each file, converted
Every readable inner file is converted under its path heading, joined by a rule.
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 archive or a thousand; it all runs the same way, on your own device.
What comes
out.
Honest about which entries convert, and which are skipped. These are the same notes the Formats list shows for tar, so the page never drifts from what the converter really does.
Kept
2- Each inner regular file, extracted and converted
- Combined under its path heading
Dropped
2- Unsupported or failing entries
- Non-file entries (directories, symlinks)
Archive questions,
answered.
Everything worth knowing before you drop in a tarball.
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