Extract Text from PDF Documents
Pull all the readable text out of a PDF and get it as plain text you can copy, edit, or paste anywhere. Works on text-based PDFs instantly in your browser.
Useful when you need to quote passages from a research paper, migrate content from a PDF into a CMS, or simply search through a document that doesn't have selectable text in your reader. Fast, private, and no installs needed.
Drop a PDF here
or click to browse. All text content will be extracted.
Frequently Asked Questions — PDF to Text
Some PDFs store text in visual order rather than reading order, especially multi-column layouts. Try selecting specific pages or columns.
No. Use the PDF OCR tool for scanned documents — it uses optical character recognition to read text from images.
Basic line breaks and paragraphs are kept. Bold, italic, and other rich formatting is stripped since the output is plain text.
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