PDF to Text
Extract all text content from a PDF file directly in your browser.
Drop PDF here or click to select
Extract Text From a PDF
This tool pulls the readable text out of a PDF and presents it as plain text you can copy or download. It is useful when you want to reuse content from a document, quote a passage, feed text into another program, or quickly search a long file without opening heavy software.
Extraction uses the PDF.js engine to read the text layer of each page. The output is organized page by page, with a clear "--- Page N ---" marker before each page's content so you always know where one page ends and the next begins.
How to Extract Text
Drop a PDF onto the upload area or click to choose a file. The tool immediately processes every page and shows the combined text in a scrollable box, along with the total page count.
From there you can press "Copy" to send the text straight to your clipboard, or "Download .txt" to save it as a plain-text file named after the original PDF. There are no settings to adjust, so it is a one-step way to lift text out of a document.
What Works and What Does Not
This tool reads the embedded text layer of a PDF, which means it works best with documents created digitally, such as those exported from word processors, web pages, or design software. For those files it captures the text accurately and quickly.
It does not perform optical character recognition (OCR). If a PDF is actually a scanned image of a page with no underlying text layer, there is no text to extract and the result will be empty or sparse. In that case you would need an OCR tool to turn the picture of the text into actual characters.