PDF Tools
PDF to Text
Pull the text out of a PDF and copy it or download a .txt — entirely in your browser. Reads the document's embedded text layer; the file is never uploaded. No account, no email.
Frequently asked questions
- Does my file get uploaded?
- No. The text is read entirely in your browser, on your own device. The PDF never leaves your computer and never reaches a server — it even works with your connection switched off.
- Does it work on scanned PDFs?
- Only if the scan has a text layer. This tool reads the text already embedded in a PDF (the kind you can select and highlight in a reader). A pure scan is an image of a page with no text layer, so there is nothing to extract — you'll be told that clearly rather than handed an empty file — and pointed to our OCR PDF tool, which reads text from scans entirely in your browser.
- Is the formatting kept?
- The output is plain text: words, lines, and the order they appear, with a blank line between pages. Fonts, columns, and exact spacing are not preserved — if you need the layout, use PDF to JPG or PDF to PNG to get an image of each page instead.
- What about a multi-page PDF?
- Every page is read in order and the text is joined into one document, with a blank line separating each page. The character and page counts shown are read from the actual extracted text.