PDF to text
Extract the text content from a PDF.
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About PDF to text
PDF to Text pulls all selectable text out of a PDF in seconds. Every paragraph, heading and table becomes plain text in its original reading order, displayed in a viewer with word and character counts, a find-in-text search, a copy button and a .txt download.
It is the fast answer when you need to extract text from a PDF for quoting, editing, translation memory or feeding into another tool — without opening a heavyweight editor or copying page by page past the reader’s selection quirks.
One honest limitation: scanned PDFs are images of text and contain nothing selectable, so they cannot be extracted here. For those, run the OCR PDF tool first, which recognizes the text and can output it as plain text too.
How to use PDF to text
- Drag and drop the PDF you want to extract.
- Click “Extract text”.
- Review the result — use the built-in search to find passages, and check the word and character counts.
- Copy the text to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Extracting text from a PDF is free.
Scans are pictures of text with no selectable characters, so there is nothing to extract. Use the OCR PDF tool instead — it recognizes the text in the images.
Yes. Paragraphs, headings and table contents are extracted in the document’s original reading order as plain text; visual formatting like fonts and columns is not carried over.
Yes. The result viewer includes a find-in-text box with a match counter, plus word and character statistics for the whole document.
Files are processed securely on the server, never shared, and cleaned up automatically after a retention window.
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