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PDF to Text Extractor

Extract all selectable text from a PDF as plain text — copy it or download a .txt. No upload.

Reads the PDF's embedded text layer page by page. Scanned PDFs without a text layer need OCR instead.

🔒 Rendering, extraction and rebuilding all happen on your device — documents never leave your browser.

Pull the text out of a PDF for editing, searching, citing or feeding to other tools — extracted locally from the PDF's own text layer, with no upload.

About PDF to Text Extractor

Extract text from a PDF in your browser. The tool walks every page with pdf.js and reads the document's embedded text layer — the same text you can select in a viewer — and assembles it into clean plain text you can copy or download as a .txt file. Works entirely offline-style: the document never leaves your device. Note that scanned PDFs are photographs of pages; if there's no text layer, you'll need an OCR tool instead.

How to use PDF to Text Extractor

  1. 1Drop your PDF.
  2. 2Text is extracted page by page with a progress indicator.
  3. 3Copy the result or download it as a .txt file.

Why use PDF to Text Extractor?

  • ✓Reusing PDF content in editors, emails and notes without retyping.
  • ✓Preparing text for translation, summarisation or analysis tools.
  • ✓Extracting quotes and citations from papers and reports.

Frequently asked questions

How do I extract text from a PDF?+

Drop the PDF here. The tool reads the embedded text of every page in order and shows it in a copyable box, with a one-click .txt download.

Why did my PDF return little or no text?+

It is probably a scanned document — images of pages with no text layer. Text extraction reads only real, selectable text; scanned files need OCR (optical character recognition) instead.

Does it keep the layout?+

Paragraph-level flow is preserved page by page, but columns, tables and exact positioning are flattened — plain text has no layout. For tables, copy from the original viewer instead.

Is my document uploaded?+

No — extraction happens entirely in your browser with pdf.js.

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