PDF to Text
Get the text out of a PDF to edit, search or reuse it. The text is extracted page by page in reading order and shown so you can search, copy or download it.
Your file stays on your device and is processed in your browser.
or drop files here
One PDF up to 200 MB.
How to convert a PDF to text
- Select the PDF.
- Choose all pages or selected pages.
- Review the extracted text and search within it.
- Copy it or download it as a TXT file.
Key features
- Optional page separators so you know where each page starts.
- Built-in search with match navigation.
- Clean output: control characters and extra blank lines are removed.
Supported files and limits
- There's no OCR: scanned pages that are only images contain no text to extract.
- Complex layouts with several columns may come out in a different order than you read them.
How your files are handled
PDF to Text runs in your browser: your file is read and processed on your device and the result is created there, so documents aren't uploaded to a server. The site only counts anonymous page views, without cookies. How it works · Privacy
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Frequently asked questions
Why is the text empty for my scanned PDF?
A scan is a picture of the page, and this tool doesn't perform OCR (text recognition), so there's no text to extract.
Which encoding does the TXT file use?
UTF-8 without a byte-order mark, so accented letters and other scripts are kept.