PDF to Text
Extract the text content from a PDF and copy or download it.
Pull the selectable text out of a PDF into plain text you can copy or save as a .txt file. Great for quoting, searching or reusing content. Runs in your browser with pdf.js — nothing is uploaded.
Choose a PDF with selectable text. The extracted text appears in a plain-text box where you can copy it or download a .txt file; pages are separated by blank lines. This does not run OCR, so an image-only scan may return no text, and complex columns may not retain their visual order.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work on scanned PDFs?
Only if the PDF contains real text. Scanned image-only PDFs have no text layer and would need OCR instead.
Privacy
All processing happens locally in your browser. Your data is never uploaded.