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PDF to Text Converter

Pull the text out of a PDF — page by page, layout kept, nothing uploaded.

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Drop a PDF here, or click to choose one

Read on your device — the PDF is never uploaded

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Quick Tool Overview

The PDF to Text Converter extracts a PDF’s text in your own browser, keeping the page layout or joining it into paragraphs, with a page range, page markers and a clear warning when the file is a scan.

What it does
Extracts the text from a PDF
You give it
A .pdf file
You get back
Plain text, page by page
Best for
Contracts, statements and reports
Converters Free, unlimited use No sign-up Runs in your browser

About the PDF to Text Converter

Copying text out of a PDF by hand gives you a column of broken lines, hyphens where the words wrapped, and headers repeated on every page. Doing it with an online converter usually means uploading a contract, a bank statement or a medical letter to a server you know nothing about.

Drop the PDF here and the text comes out in your own browser — Mozilla’s pdf.js does the reading, exactly as Firefox does. Keep the page layout, which holds tables and invoices together, or join the lines into flowing paragraphs for prose. Convert a page range rather than the whole file, mark where each page starts, and see the document’s title and producer. When a PDF turns out to be a scan with no text at all, the page says so plainly rather than handing back an empty box.

Key features of the PDF to Text Converter

Layout or flow

Keep the lines where they sit for tables, or join them for prose.

Page range

Convert one chapter rather than a 300-page report.

Reading order fixed

Pieces are grouped into lines by position, not by drawing order.

Scans detected

A PDF with no text layer is reported rather than returning nothing.

Nothing uploaded

Mozilla’s pdf.js reads the file in your tab, as Firefox does.

How to use the PDF to Text Converter

  1. 1

    Drop the PDF in

    It is read on your device — nothing is uploaded.

  2. 2

    Choose how lines are handled

    Keep the layout for tables, or join into paragraphs for prose.

  3. 3

    Pick a page range

    Useful for one chapter of a long report.

  4. 4

    Copy or download the text

    Plain .txt, ready for anything.

Frequently asked questions

The PDF is a scan — a photograph of each page with no text layer. That needs OCR; our Image to Text tool reads pictures of text.

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