PDF to TXT
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 converter focused on producing a plain-text .txt file from a PDF. Drop a document, and its text is extracted page by page with "Page N" markers, then offered as a downloadable .txt — the universal format that opens in any editor, script or command-line tool.
A .txt export is the right choice when you need the words without any formatting: piping content into a program, diffing two versions, indexing a document for search, or archiving the readable text of a PDF in the smallest possible file. The download button saves exactly what you see in the text box.
All extraction happens locally in your browser via the pdf.js engine — nothing is uploaded, which matters for private paperwork. If the PDF turns out to be a scan with no embedded text, the tool says so and suggests OCR instead of handing back a blank 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.