PDF to Text
PDF to Text
Extract the words from a text-based PDF into a plain text file you can search, quote, or paste anywhere. It all happens on your device.
Drop a PDF here or click to choose a file
Your files never leave your device.
How it works — and its honest limit
This tool reads the PDF's built-in text layer — the same text you can select and copy in a PDF reader — using pdf.js, entirely in your browser.
Scanned PDFs: a scan is a picture of a page, not text. If your PDF has no text layer, this tool will tell you plainly instead of handing you an empty file. Turning scans into text needs OCR software, which genuinely can't run honestly in a free browser tool — so we don't fake it.
Layout: you get the words in reading order, line by line. Columns, tables and exact spacing from the original layout are not preserved — this is a text extraction, not a document conversion.