Extract Text from PDF
Extract the plain text from a PDF's text layer in the browser, page by page, ready to copy or download.
Processed entirely in your browser — nothing you enter here is ever uploaded.
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About this tool
This page opens the PDF-to-text tool ready to pull the plain text out of a document. Drop a PDF and the tool reads its text layer page by page, labels each block with a "Page N" marker, and shows the whole result in a box you can copy or download as a .txt file.
Extracting text is the quickest way to reuse the words in a PDF: quoting a clause from a contract, moving a report's body into an editor, feeding content into a translator, or searching a long document for a phrase. Because the text comes from the PDF's own text layer, it is exact — no OCR guesswork, no misread characters.
Everything runs locally in your browser through the pdf.js engine, so confidential documents never leave your device. If the PDF is a scan with no text layer, the tool tells you plainly and points you to OCR rather than returning an empty file.
Example. A PDF with a real text layer returns that text page by page, ready to copy, with each page's getTextContent string kept separate.
Limit. There is no OCR pass, so a scanned page whose glyphs are only an image contributes an empty text string.