Fountain+ 
- Reads PDF layout columns and ALL-CAPS runs to recover scene headings, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals, and transitions
- Outputs editable Fountain plain text — diffable in git, readable in any editor, parseable by every modern screenwriting app
- Our servers never receive your PDF — the conversion happens inside your browser. The only thing the page downloads is an open-source PDF parser that runs locally on your machine.
- Most resilient PDF target — ambiguous blocks fall through as action without breaking the parse, easy to fix by eye
You've got a PDF and you want a script you can edit in any text editor, version-control in git, or feed into a tool that speaks Fountain. This converter rebuilds the screenplay as .fountain markup — readable as plain text, parseable by every modern screenwriting app.
What to expect
PDF→Fountain is the most resilient PDF target because Fountain is forgiving about edge cases — when a block is ambiguous, it can sit as action without breaking.
The converter recovers scene headings, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals, and transitions from layout columns.
Title pages survive when the PDF encodes them as text; scanned cover pages don't. Expect to glance over the output once and fix the occasional mis-classified line — Fountain's plain-text shape makes that a 30-second job in any editor.
How it works
Your file never leaves your browser — conversion runs entirely client-side. The PDF is parsed into positioned text runs, layout heuristics classify each block, and the resulting Screenplay is serialised back out as Fountain markup with the standard indentation and ALL-CAPS conventions.
If you need to go the otherway, from Fountain to PDF then our convert is up. It takes the same .fountain source produced by the PDF or elsewhere and handles the same functionality.
What the PDF looks like
INT. FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE - CENTRAL AREA - DAY
The Robots carry Superman into this crystal cathedral.
Holograms of the immaculate JOR-EL and LARA, holding baby
Kal-El, loom around them, delivering a message in the
florid KRYPTONIAN LANGUAGE.
ROBOT 4
I put on your parents' message to
soothe you.
(to Robot 12)
He finds it soothing.
SUPERMAN
Thank you.
The Robots set him in a giant seat, like a toddler in a
dentist's chair, surrounded by bizarre Kryptonian
technology. They prep him for his procedure.
A scene from Superman by James Gunn, rendered as a screenplay PDF would display it — bold scene heading, character cues indented to the centre column, parentheticals nested, dialogue between. Superman and all related characters are © DC Comics / Warner Bros.; this excerpt is shown for educational purposes to illustrate PDF screenplay layout.