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PDF to Text - Extract the Text From Any PDF

Read the text out of the pages you pick and save it as a plain .txt file.

Add a PDF

Extract

Add a PDF to see every page as a thumbnail. The text is read in this tab — nothing is uploaded. A scanned PDF holds no text to read, and the tool will say so.

About PDF to Text

This PDF to Text tool reads the text layer that is already inside your PDF, the same words a reader lets you select, and writes them out as plain text. Type a page range like 1-3, 5, 8- or click the thumbnails to choose the pages, then pick Plain text to reflow each page into paragraphs, or Keep line breaks to preserve the line structure of the page exactly as it was laid out. Page separators mark where one page ends and the next begins, and can be turned off. The whole result is shown in a scrollable preview before you download anything, so you can see what you are getting. If a PDF is a scan with no text layer, the tool says so plainly instead of handing you an empty file. Everything runs on your own device, so the document never leaves the tab.

Features

100% Private

All processing happens in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to any server.

Instant

Pages are read one by one with live progress, and you can stop a long job at any point.

Preview First

The whole extracted text is shown before you download, so you know exactly what you are saving.

100% Free

No signup, no watermarks, no limits. Completely free to use forever.

How to use PDF to Text

  1. 1

    Add your PDF

    Drop the PDF into the upload area, click to browse, or paste it with Ctrl+V. Every page appears as a thumbnail.

  2. 2

    Pick the pages

    Type a range like 1-3, 5, 8- or click the thumbnails. The range box and the page grid stay in step with each other.

  3. 3

    Choose how the text is laid out

    Pick Plain text to reflow each page into paragraphs, or Keep line breaks to preserve the page's own line structure. Turn page separators off if you do not want them.

  4. 4

    Extract the text

    Click Extract text. Progress is shown page by page and can be cancelled at any point.

  5. 5

    Read it, then download

    Check the full preview, rename the output if you like, then save the .txt file.

Use cases

  • Quoting a passage from a report without retyping it
  • Feeding a paper or a contract into a notes app or a search index
  • Recovering the wording from a PDF whose source file is long gone
  • Pulling plain text out of a document to summarise or translate it

Privacy

The text is read from your PDF in your browser using JavaScript. Your file is never uploaded to a server, nothing is logged, and closing the tab discards it.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, this PDF to Text tool is 100% free with no hidden charges, no signup required, no watermarks, and no usage limits.
Absolutely. The text is read directly in your browser using JavaScript. Your file is never uploaded to any server, so nothing leaves your device.
Plain text reflows each page into paragraphs, joining the lines of a paragraph into one long line and leaving a blank line between paragraphs, which is what you want for reading or pasting into a document. Keep line breaks writes one line of output for every line on the page, which is what you want for poetry, code, addresses or anything laid out in columns.
A scan is a picture of a page, so there is no text inside the file to extract, only pixels. The tool detects this and tells you that the PDF has no selectable text rather than giving you an empty file. Reading a scan needs OCR, which is a different job from text extraction.
Not always. The tool sorts the text on each page top to bottom and then left to right, which is right for ordinary documents but can interleave side-by-side columns, because a PDF stores pieces of text at positions rather than in reading order. Keep line breaks usually makes the result easier to untangle by hand.
Yes. Type a range like 1-3, 5, 8- in the pages box, or click the page thumbnails to build the range. Only the pages you choose are read, and the page separators carry their real page numbers.
No. A password protected PDF has to be unlocked first. The tool says so plainly when you drop one in, rather than failing silently.
A single UTF-8 .txt file named after your PDF, holding the pages you selected in page order. You can rename it before downloading.

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