PDF to text

Copy the text out of a PDF into a plain text file.

Your files stay with you. Your files never leave your browser. This tool runs on your device: nothing is uploaded to our servers, so there is nothing for us to store or see.

How to use it

  1. Choose your PDF.
  2. Choose whether to add a Page marker before each page.
  3. Press Extract text and download the .txt file.

Questions people ask

Why did I get no text?
A scanned PDF contains pictures of pages, not text. Reading it needs OCR, which this tool does not do.
Will tables and columns look right?
Text comes out in reading order line by line. Complex tables and columns may need tidying.
Is my PDF uploaded?
Everything runs on your device, so the file is never uploaded.

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