Free PDF to Text — Extract Text from PDF Files Online
Pull the text out of any text-based PDF, then copy it or save it as a .txt file. Processed entirely in your browser — no upload, no signup.
Runs in your browser — your files are never uploaded.
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Extracting Text from PDFs
This tool reads the text layer of a PDF using pdf.js and joins the text of every page. It works on PDFs created from documents, exports and web pages.
Scanned PDFs are just pictures of pages and contain no text layer. For those, use our Image to Text (OCR) tool.
Frequently Asked Questions
The PDF is probably a scan. Use OCR instead.
Only text and line breaks; layout, tables and images are not.
No fixed limit; very large files depend on device memory.
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