AI to PDFClaude to PDF and Markdown, in one click
Claude writes long, structured, code-heavy answers, and has no export button. AI to PDF turns the open conversation into a clean document: code with language labels, tables, your attachments, artifacts listed by name, and the thinking blocks left out.
Split the signup form into three steps and keep the validation. Here is the current component.
I’ll keep the validation schema and move each field group into its own step:
Artifact: Signup wizard (code)
The schema is unchanged, so existing tests still pass.
Claude has no export button. Here is what that means.
On claude.ai there is no “download this conversation” anywhere. The official route is Settings → Privacy → Export data, which emails you a link, valid for 24 hours, to an archive of all your conversations as JSON. Useful for a backup, useless when a colleague asks for “that answer about the database migration” as a PDF. Printing the page is the usual workaround, and on Claude it is worse than on most sites: the transcript is virtualised, so only the messages near your scroll position exist on the page at all, and everything else is simply missing from the printout. The rest of the options, with their trade-offs, are in our guide how to export a Claude conversation.
AI to PDF reads the conversation directly from the page, scrolling through the whole transcript first so nothing is missed, and rebuilds it as a document. Then Chrome saves that document as a PDF, locally. Claude to PDF becomes one click, and Claude to Markdown is the same click with a different choice.
Built for the way Claude answers
- Long answers stay readable. Real headings, lists, blockquotes and page breaks between messages, not one endless column of text.
- Code blocks keep their language. Claude labels every block (Python, TypeScript, SQL…). The label is kept, and the code is set in a monospace font with ligatures off so nothing turns into arrows or dashes on the way to paper.
- Tables keep their columns. The wide tables Claude likes to produce come out as tables, scrolled horizontally in the app but laid out in full in the PDF.
- Your attachments are included. Images you dropped into a message are embedded, fetched inside your own logged-in session.
- Artifacts are listed, not lost. Where Claude created an artifact, the document shows “Artifact: <title> (<type>)” in place, so the reader knows something was built there. Full artifact content is planned for a later version.
- Thinking is left out. The “Thought for 12s” disclosures are reasoning scratch work. They are excluded, along with the “Claude responded” screen-reader labels and the inline upgrade nudges.
Three options, nothing else
PDF or Markdown, and All messages / Last reply / Pick. “Last reply” is the fast way to hand someone Claude’s final answer without the twelve rounds that led to it. “Pick” puts a checkbox above every message. Light or dark document theme, and that is the entire interface.
The Markdown export gives you the conversation as GitHub-flavoured Markdown with fenced code blocks and pipe tables, which is what you want for Obsidian, a wiki or a pull request description. It is free and unlimited. See the Markdown page.
Claude to PDF, free and PRO
| Free | PRO — €2.99/month or €24.99/year | |
|---|---|---|
| PDF exports | 3 a day | Unlimited |
| Markdown exports | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Footer line “Exported with AI to PDF” | Yes, one line at the end | No |
| All / Last reply / Pick, light & dark | ✔ | ✔ |
| ChatGPT, Gemini and DeepSeek with the same licence | ✔ | ✔ · up to 5 devices |
No account is created. PRO is activated with the email you used at checkout, on up to 5 devices, and the same licence covers every supported AI site. See pricing.
Local by design, which matters more on Claude
People use Claude for the long, sensitive work: contracts, codebases, medical questions, strategy documents. The most-installed Claude exporter builds its PDFs on the developer’s server, which means the conversation is uploaded, converted and sent back. AI to PDF cannot do that even if it wanted to; it has no endpoint that accepts conversation content. The only request it makes is a licence and quota check carrying an anonymous install ID. The full wording is in the privacy policy.
Frequently asked questions
How do I export a Claude conversation to PDF?
Install AI to PDF, open the conversation on claude.ai, click the extension button and choose PDF. The document opens print-ready with “Save as PDF” already selected. Claude itself has no per-chat export; its Settings → Privacy → Export data sends you every conversation as JSON by email, not a PDF of the one you need.
Does the PDF include Claude's extended thinking?
No, on purpose. The collapsed “Thought for …” blocks are reasoning scratch work, not the answer, and they would double the length of the document. Only the visible answer is exported.
What happens to artifacts?
The document lists each artifact where it appeared, with its title and type, for example “Artifact: Landing page (html)”. The artifact’s full content lives in Claude’s side panel rather than in the message and is not included in this version; exporting artifacts as separate files is planned.
Are files and images I attached included?
Images you attached to a message are embedded in the PDF. They are fetched inside your own logged-in browser, which is the only place Claude serves them from, so nothing has to be uploaded anywhere.
Does it work with long conversations and Projects?
Yes. Claude only keeps the visible part of a long transcript on the page; the extension scrolls through the whole conversation and collects every message before rendering. A conversation inside a Project exports the same way as any other chat.
Is my Claude conversation sent to your server?
No. The document is built inside your browser and saved by Chrome’s print engine. The only thing our server sees is an anonymous install ID and a daily export count, used for the free limit and PRO licences.
Also using ChatGPT? The same extension does ChatGPT to PDF with the same three options. More answers in the FAQ.
Your Claude conversations, as documents
Free for three PDFs a day, Markdown unlimited. No account, nothing uploaded, one click.
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