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Extract the text from a PDF into a plain .txt file, right in your browser — great for copying, searching, or reusing content.
Short answer
To extract text from a PDF, choose your file and download a plain .txt with the document’s text, page by page. It reads the PDF’s text layer in your browser — nothing is uploaded. Note: scanned (image-only) PDFs have no text layer and need OCR, which this doesn’t do.
No. Scanned documents are images with no text layer, so there's nothing to extract — you'd need OCR (optical character recognition) for those. This tool pulls out real, selectable text from digitally-created PDFs.
No. The text is read from the PDF entirely in your browser with pdf.js, so confidential documents never leave your device. It works offline once the page has loaded.
No — you get plain text, page by page, without fonts, columns, or layout. That's ideal for copying content, searching, or feeding text into another tool.
Complex layouts (multi-column pages, tables) can extract in an unexpected reading order, and text stored as an image won't appear at all. The tool returns the text layer exactly as the PDF stores it.
Yes — no signup, no watermark. It's ad-supported and runs entirely in your browser.
Text is extracted from the PDF's text layer entirely in your browser and is never uploaded. Scanned/image PDFs have no text layer. Provided free and ad-supported, without warranty.