PDF to Text
Extract all readable text from a PDF file, page by page - free and private. Perfect for copying content out of documents, forms and e-books.
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Drag & drop a PDF here
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Privacy note: Your PDF never leaves your browser - extraction happens completely on your device, no file is uploaded to any server. Note: scanned-image PDFs with no text layer will return empty text; use the Image to Text (OCR) tool for those.
How to use
- Click the box above or drag and drop a PDF file into it.
- Click Extract Text and wait while each page is processed.
- Read the result - every page is separated with a --- Page N --- marker and the total page count is shown.
- Click Copy Text or Download .txt to save the extracted text.
Tips
- Works on PDFs with real text — scanned images of text produce no output.
- Use the page separators to keep track of where each piece of text came from.
- Keep the original PDF for reference after copying the text into your document.