PDF to Text

Pull the text out of a PDF so you can copy, search or reuse it as plain text.

Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Drag & drop a PDF here, or click to browse

PDF only · up to 100MB · one file at a time

How to use

PDF to Text in 3 steps

Add your PDF

Drop a text-based PDF onto the drop zone or click to browse for one.

Extract the text

Click Extract text. Every page is scanned in your browser and its text is pulled out, page by page.

Copy or download

Use Copy text to paste it elsewhere, or Download .txt to save it as a plain text file.

Features

Why use this PDF to Text

Extracts real, selectable text — not an image or a screenshot.

Keeps a clear page-by-page structure so you can find where content came from.

One-click copy to clipboard, or download as a plain .txt file.

Runs entirely with pdf.js in your browser — your document is never uploaded.

FAQ

Questions about this tool

Will this work on a scanned PDF?

Only if the scan already has an OCR text layer embedded in it. A pure image scan with no underlying text layer has no text for this tool to extract, since it does not perform optical character recognition.

Does the extracted text keep the original formatting?

Basic reading order and page breaks are preserved, but complex formatting like columns, tables and exact spacing may not carry over perfectly, since PDF text positioning does not always map cleanly to plain text.

Is my document uploaded anywhere during extraction?

No. The entire extraction process runs locally using the pdf.js library inside your browser tab — the PDF and its text never leave your device.

Can I extract text from just certain pages?

This tool extracts all pages at once with clear page markers in the output, so you can quickly scroll to or delete the pages you don't need from the result.