Extract Text from PDF
Your file stays on your device — nothing is uploaded.
How it works
PDF to text pulls the text layer out of a document and hands it back as plain text you can paste into an editor, a translator or a script. The output is plain text: line breaks are reconstructed from where the words sit on the page, but columns, tables, fonts and styling are not preserved. If nothing comes out, the PDF has no text layer at all — it is a scan or a set of page images, and turning that into words needs OCR instead. Extraction happens entirely in your browser, so neither the PDF nor the text is ever sent to a server.
- Drop a PDF onto the page.
- Press “Extract text” — pages are read one by one and the progress counter shows how far along it is.
- Read the preview. Long documents are truncated on screen, but the downloaded file always contains the full text.
- Copy the text straight to your clipboard, or download a standard UTF-8 .txt file where each page is separated by a blank line.