Convert man / roff to Markdown.
Drop a man page or roff source and get readable Markdown in seconds. It runs entirely in your browser, so your file 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.
Written for the
terminal.
A man page is dense with roff macros and escapes meant for the terminal, not the eye. Converting turns those .SH, .B and \- codes into plain Markdown you can actually read.
.SH NAME
grep \- print lines matching a pattern
.B grep
[OPTIONS] PATTERN
## NAME
grep - print lines matching a pattern
**grep** [OPTIONS] PATTERN
Everything you
actually need.
Roff source in, readable Markdown out, with no server and no account anywhere.
It never leaves your browser
The .man file is read 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.
Man macros handled
Section titles, font changes, list items and preformatted blocks are mapped to Markdown.
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.
What survives
the trip.
Honest about what comes through, and what doesn't. These are the same notes the Formats list shows for man / roff, so the page never drifts from what the converter really does.
Kept
4- Titles & sections
- Bold / italic fonts
- List items
- Preformatted blocks
Dropped
4- Tables
- Equations
- Rare macros
- Complex layout
man page questions,
answered.
Everything worth knowing before you drop in a man or roff file.
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