Convert Hangul Word Processor (.hwp 5.x) documents into clean, structured GitHub Flavored Markdown directly in your browser. 100% private client-side parsing with zero server uploads.
Detailed side-by-side format architecture for HWP Document (.hwp) and Markdown Document (.md). Every conversion executes strictly within isolated browser memory without network transit.
Drag and drop your .hwp file onto the working surface or use the system file dialog. File magic bytes are verified locally on device.
Select a quality preset (Lossless, Visually Lossless, Balanced, Smallest) or adjust advanced encoding switches in the options panel.
Click CONVERT to execute local WebAssembly compilation. Save the finished .md directly to local storage, or stage it for chaining.
Prefer local shell scripting? Run this standard POSIX command on your machine to achieve equivalent transcoding without a web interface:
# Convert HWP to MD locally
pandoc input.hwp -o output.mdWorking with files across multiple web pages? The official convrtr Chrome Extension adds native Side Panel docking, right-click context menu media extraction, and visible viewport capture. Powered by the same zero-upload client-side WebAssembly engine.
HWP is the native file format of Hancom Hangul (Hangul Word Processor), the de facto standard word processing software in South Korea's public sector, academia, and enterprise. Modern HWP 5.x files are Microsoft OLE 2.0 Compound File Binary (CFB) containers storing Deflate-compressed BodyText sections encoded in UTF-16LE.
HWP files cannot be opened natively on macOS, Linux, or modern web browsers without installing proprietary Hancom viewers. Converting HWP files to GitHub Flavored Markdown transforms legacy Korean documents into clean, readable text ready for Obsidian, Notion, LLM ingestion, and cross-platform editing.
Yes. In accordance with the HWP 5.0 specification, compressed BodyText section streams are dynamically decompressed in browser memory using Deflate before records (such as HWPTAG_PARA_TEXT) are parsed.
Never. All OLE CFB directory traversing, stream decompression, record tokenization, and markdown rendering execute entirely within your browser's local sandbox via client-side TypeScript. Your proprietary documents and personal data never touch a server.
HWP Document (HWP) and Markdown Document (MD) serve distinct roles across the digital workflow. Converting to MD provides optimized compatibility, modern compression efficiency, or standardized playback across web browsers, operating systems, and media production environments.
The output format (MD) is inherently lossless or supports lossless operation. Your original visual or audio fidelity is mathematically preserved without quantization artifacts.
Never. convrtr is architected with a strict zero-upload model. All processing, decoding, decompression, and encoding happen 100% locally on your machine using sandboxed WebAssembly and Web Workers. Your data never touches an external server, database, or analytics collector.
You can execute this conversion locally via command-line utilities such as ffmpeg, cwebp, or ImageMagick. For example: see the developer terminal recipe provided in the technical specifications dossier above. convrtr provides the identical local-first capability directly inside your browser without installing CLI packages.
Yes. You can drop multiple .hwp files into the instrument to process them concurrently in browser Web Workers, or click 'Open in Master Studio' to queue mixed formats, configure individual targets, and export as a single ZIP archive.
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