PDF to Text
Extract all the text from a PDF for free — copy or download it as plain text, in your browser.
Extract the selectable text from every page of a PDF and get clean plain text you can copy or download as a .txt file. It is far faster and tidier than selecting page by page in a viewer. Everything runs in your browser, so your document is never uploaded.
Note that scanned PDFs are images with no selectable text — for those, convert the pages to images first and use an OCR tool.
Frequently asked questions
How do I extract text from a PDF?
Upload the PDF and click extract; the tool pulls the text from every page and lets you copy or download it.
Why is no text extracted from my PDF?
Your PDF is probably a scan (an image). Use PDF to JPG then an OCR tool to read text from the images.
Is my document uploaded?
No, the extraction happens locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.
Does it keep formatting?
It returns clean plain text, page by page. Complex layouts and tables may lose their original formatting.