PDF to Text
Extract all text from any digitally-created PDF — copy or download as .txt
Drop your PDF here
or click to browse — Works on digitally-created PDFs (not scanned images)
Extract all text from any digitally-created PDF — copy or download as .txt
Drop your PDF here
or click to browse — Works on digitally-created PDFs (not scanned images)
Need to extract text from a PDF quickly? This free tool reads the text layer directly from your PDF and presents it as plain, copyable text — no formatting, no tables, just the raw content. Useful for copying content into other documents, checking text for search engines, data extraction, or simply reading a PDF as plain text. Everything runs in your browser — your file is never uploaded.
Extracts all text from every page of your PDF, clearly labelled by page number for easy navigation.
One-click "Copy All Text" button copies the entire extracted text to your clipboard ready to paste anywhere.
Save the extracted text as a plain .txt file — the same name as your PDF for easy identification.
Displays total page count, word count, and character count so you know the scale of the content extracted.
Text is extracted and labelled page by page, so you can locate content from a specific page easily.
All extraction happens locally in your browser using pdf.js. Your PDF is never uploaded anywhere.
This happens when your PDF is a scanned document — it is essentially a photograph, not a real text file. PDF to Text only works on PDFs that contain a real text layer (those exported from Word, InDesign, Excel, web browsers, etc.). Scanned PDFs require OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which this tool does not perform.
No. The output is plain text — all formatting, fonts, colours, tables, and layout are stripped. Only the raw characters are extracted. If you need to preserve formatting, consider using our PDF to Word tool instead.
Only if the PDF allows text copying without a password. If the PDF is fully encrypted, you will need to remove the password protection first using a dedicated PDF tool. Some PDFs restrict copying only — these may still be unreadable.
No. All processing happens locally in your browser, so there are no server-side limits. Very large PDFs with hundreds of pages will take a few seconds to process.