App or macro to convert PDF as Confluence page

[Doods Perea]

Hello all,

Is there a Confluence Marketplace App or a Macro that converts an attached PDF file into text in the same Confluence page?

Thank you.

Doods

[Jason U]

Hi Doods,

That’s a great question — unfortunately, Confluence Cloud doesn’t natively support converting PDF attachments directly into editable page content. However, there are a few reliable approaches depending on what you need 👇

✅ Option 1 – Use a Marketplace App (recommended)

You can use apps that extract or import PDF content as Confluence text or tables.

Some popular ones include:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=better%20PDF%20exporter

⚙️ Option 2 – Use an external OCR + automation integration

If your goal is to automatically insert PDF text into a Confluence page,
you can combine tools via Zapier or Make (Integromat):

1. Upload the PDF to Confluence or a connected drive.
2. Use an OCR/convert service (like Google Drive OCR or Adobe PDF API).
3. Push the extracted text back into Confluence via REST API as page content.

This requires a bit of setup but works perfectly for recurring workflows.

🚫 No native macro

There’s currently no built-in Confluence macro that reads and renders the contents of an attached PDF inline as editable text — the PDF viewer macro only displays the file visually, it doesn’t convert it.

[Peter_DevSamurai]

I think the option to install a Confluence app will work best here. 

[Doods Perea]

Thank you @Jason U.

I will be testing this Confluence app, PDF importer | Atlassian Marketplace.

Cheers!

Doods