About the PDF to Text
Pull the text out of a PDF so you can search, edit, quote or translate it. Each page's text is extracted in reading order into a plain text file.
Key features
- Extracts all text from every page
- Keeps line breaks in reading order
- Optional page markers (--- Page 3 ---)
- Handles large, multi-page PDFs
- Downloads a UTF-8 .txt file
- Private: processed in your browser
Get the text out of a PDF
Need to quote a report, translate a document, search a contract, feed text into another tool or reuse your own writing? Upload a PDF and download all its text as a plain .txt file.
Plain text vs Word
| Need | Use |
|---|---|
| Just the words, to copy, search or analyze | PDF to Text |
| Editable document with formatting and tables | PDF to Word |
| Pictures of each page | PDF to JPG |
What to do with the text
- Count words with the Word Counter.
- Compare two versions of a contract with the Diff Checker.
- Clean up line breaks with Remove Line Breaks.
- Find keywords with the Word Frequency Counter.
Digital vs scanned PDFs
| PDF type | Can you select text in a viewer? | Works here? |
|---|---|---|
| Created from Word, Google Docs or a website | Yes | ✅ |
| Exported from design apps | Usually | ✅ |
| Scanned paper document | No | ❌ (needs OCR) |
| Photo saved as PDF | No | ❌ (needs OCR) |
Related tools
Convert PDF to Word, split a PDF to extract only certain pages first, or merge PDFs.
How to use the PDF to Text
- Drag and drop your files into the upload area, or click Choose files.
- Set any options, such as quality, page size or page ranges.
- Click the convert button. Processing happens right in your browser.
- Download each result individually, or all of them as a ZIP.