diff --git a/src/javascript/models/MarkdownElements.jsx b/src/javascript/models/MarkdownElements.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3da3a5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/javascript/models/MarkdownElements.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import PdfBlock from './BlockPage.jsx';
+
+export const CODE_BLOCK = "Code/Quote";
+export const HEADLINE1 = "Headline 1";
+
+export function blockToText(block: PdfBlock) {
+    const text = concatTextItems(block);
+    switch (block.type) {
+    case CODE_BLOCK:
+        return '```\n' + text + '```'
+    case HEADLINE1:
+        return '#' + text;
+    default:
+        return text;
+    }
+}
+
+
+function concatTextItems(block: PdfBlock) {
+    var text = '';
+    block.textItems.forEach(item => {
+        text += item.text + '\n';
+    });
+    return text;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/javascript/models/transformations/DetectCodeBlocks.jsx b/src/javascript/models/transformations/DetectCodeBlocks.jsx
index c8d22e1..84f488b 100644
--- a/src/javascript/models/transformations/DetectCodeBlocks.jsx
+++ b/src/javascript/models/transformations/DetectCodeBlocks.jsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import ParseResult from '../ParseResult.jsx';
 import PdfBlock from '../PdfBlock.jsx';
 import TextItemCombiner from '../TextItemCombiner.jsx';
 import { REMOVED_ANNOTATION, ADDED_ANNOTATION } from '../Annotation.jsx';
+import { CODE_BLOCK } from '../MarkdownElements.jsx';
 
 //Detect quotes, code etc.. which is transformed to markdown code syntax
 export default class DetectCodeBlocks extends ToPdfBlockViewTransformation {
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ export default class DetectCodeBlocks extends ToPdfBlockViewTransformation {
                             block.annotation = REMOVED_ANNOTATION;
                             newBlocks.push(block);
                             newBlocks.push(new PdfBlock({
-                                type: 'Code/Quote',
+                                type: CODE_BLOCK,
                                 annotation: ADDED_ANNOTATION,
                                 textItems: textCombiner.combine(block.textItems)
                             }));
diff --git a/src/javascript/models/transformations/ToTextBlocks.jsx b/src/javascript/models/transformations/ToTextBlocks.jsx
index cf01f34..315deaf 100644
--- a/src/javascript/models/transformations/ToTextBlocks.jsx
+++ b/src/javascript/models/transformations/ToTextBlocks.jsx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import Transformation from './Transformation.jsx';
 import BlockPageView from '../../components/debug/BlockPageView.jsx';
 import ParseResult from '../ParseResult.jsx';
 import BlockPage from '../BlockPage.jsx';
+import { blockToText } from '../MarkdownElements.jsx';
 
 export default class ToTextBlocks extends Transformation {
 
@@ -18,17 +19,10 @@ export default class ToTextBlocks extends Transformation {
         const blocks = [];
         parseResult.content.forEach(page => {
             page.blocks.forEach(block => {
-                var text = '';
-                block.textItems.forEach(item => {
-                    // if (item.markdownElement) {
-                    // text = item.markdownElement.transformText(item.text);
-                    // }
-                    text += '\n' + item.text;
-                });
                 const category = block.type ? block.type : 'Unknown';
                 blocks.push({
                     category: category,
-                    text: text
+                    text: blockToText(block)
                 });
             });