PDF to Text
Extract all text content from a PDF
Free & unlimited
All processing happens in your browser. No data is sent to any server.
About this tool
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Upload your PDF
Select the PDF file you want to extract text from.
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Wait for extraction
The tool reads all text layers from every page of the document.
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Review extracted text
Browse the extracted content and verify it looks correct.
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Copy or download
Copy the text to your clipboard or download it as a plain text file.
- For scanned PDFs without a text layer, use the PDF OCR tool first, then extract text.
- Text extraction works best on digitally created PDFs rather than scanned images.
- Tables may lose their column alignment in plain text - consider PDF to Excel for tabular data.
- Use Ctrl+F in the output to quickly find specific content in long documents.
- Extract text from all pages in a single operation
- Preserves paragraph breaks and basic structure
- Copy to clipboard or download as .txt file
- Fast processing even for large documents
- Works with multi-column layouts
- Extract article content from a PDF journal for quoting or referencing
- Pull text from PDF contracts for review in a text editor or word processor
- Migrate legacy PDF documentation into a modern content management system
- Extract text for translation or language analysis tools
Your PDF is likely a scanned image without an embedded text layer. Use the PDF OCR tool first to add a searchable text layer.
Plain text extraction captures the characters only. Formatting like bold, italic, and colors are not included in .txt output.
You need to unlock the PDF first using the PDF Unlock tool, then extract text from the unlocked file.