Sharing a small workflow fix that has saved our outreach team a lot of time, in case it is useful to others running water education programmes.Most of the curriculum material, water-quality reports and government guidance we work from arrives as PDF. That is fine for printing, but it is painful when you need to pull a table of measurements into a spreadsheet, translate a section for a local partner, or quote a paragraph in a training handout. Copy-paste from a PDF flattens tables into a single run of text and loses every heading level, so someone always ends up retyping.We now convert to Markdown first. The tool we settled on is pdf2md — it runs entirely inside the browser, so documents that are not ours to redistribute never get uploaded to anyone's server, and it reconstructs tables from the page geometry rather than guessing from whitespace. Once it is Markdown the content is searchable, diffable between revisions of a guidance document, and drops straight into a CMS or a translation tool.Two practical notes: check the tables first, since that is where every converter differs; and keep the original PDF alongside the Markdown so the authoritative version is still obvious.Curious whether other portals here have settled on a different approach for making PDF-only material reusable.
Educate. Empower. Act. The mission of Project WET is to reach children, parents, educators and communities of the world with water education.
