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Stop Fighting AI Formatting: How I Built a "Sanitizer" for Messy AI Markdown

DEV Community·Suryansh Swarn·18 days ago
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The Problem: The "AI-to-Doc" Friction We’ve all been there. You ask an AI like ChatGPT, Gemini, or NotebookLM to explain a complex topic. The output is great, but when you copy-paste it into a professional document or a standard editor, it looks... broken. The biggest culprits? LaTeX delimiters. AI tools love using \[ ... \] for block math and \( ... \) for inline math. Most web-based markdown parsers don’t recognize these out of the box, leaving your document littered with backslashes and brackets instead of beautiful equations. I decided to build a solution: Markdown Latex Pdf generator . A tool to solve this "messy copy-paste" journey. The Tech Stack To keep the app fast and responsive, I went with: React (Vite): For the reactive UI. Marked.js: For high-speed markdown parsing. KaTeX: For math rendering that actually looks like a textbook. html2pdf.js: To turn that "Liquid Glass" UI into a portable document.…

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