PDF to Text
Pull the plain text out of a PDF.
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PDF · Upload a file up to 100 MB
Your files are secure and private. Everything is processed on your device.
How it works
- Upload your PDFSelect the document to read.
- We extract the textEvery page is read in your browser.
- Copy or downloadTake the text as .txt or straight to the clipboard.
What this tool does
- Preserves reading order page by page
- Optional page markers so you know where each page starts
- Blank-line cleanup for tidier output
- Character and word count for the extracted text
Supported formats
Maximum file size: 100 MB.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Scans are images without a text layer, so there is nothing to extract. OCR software is needed first.
PDFs store text as positioned fragments rather than paragraphs. Columns and tables can interleave when flattened into plain text.
This tool reads the whole document. To narrow it down, extract the page first with Extract PDF Pages.
No, extraction happens locally in your browser.
Privacy and security
Your file is read directly from your device and processed in your browser. It is never uploaded to a server, so there is no copy for us to keep, share or lose. Closing the tab discards everything. If you want to check this yourself: open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and use the tool — you will see no request carrying your file or input leave the page.
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