PDF→Text

PDF to Text Extractor

Open a text-based PDF to pull out its selectable text, with clear page markers. Edit the result, copy it, or save it as a .txt file — all on your device.

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1. PDF

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PDF → TXT
Open a PDF to extract its text.

2. Extracted text

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About this tool

About PDF to Text Extractor

PDF to Text Extractor pulls the selectable text out of a PDF in your browser, page by page, with a clear --- Page N --- marker before each page. You can edit the result, copy it, or download it as a .txt file.

Copying text out of a PDF viewer often breaks lines and mixes up pages. Extracting it in one go gives clean plain text for quoting, editing, searching or feeding into other tools. It only works on text-based PDFs: there is no OCR, so scanned pages are reported rather than guessed.

How to use

Step by step

  1. Open a text-based PDF — extraction starts automatically.
  2. Watch the page-by-page progress until the status confirms extraction.
  3. Review the page, character and word counts and the text status.
  4. Edit the text in the output box if needed.
  5. Press Copy text or Download .txt.
Key features

What it offers

  • Extracts selectable text from every page in order
  • Page markers such as --- Page 1 --- between pages
  • Editable output area
  • Copy to clipboard and .txt download
  • Page, character and word counts with a text status
  • Clear notice for scanned or image-only pages (no OCR)
Best practices

Tips for best results

  • Test first: if you cannot highlight text in a PDF viewer, there is no text to extract.
  • For scanned documents, use a dedicated OCR application — this tool does not perform OCR.
  • Expect tables and multi-column layouts to become plain lines that may need tidying.
  • Use the page markers to find where each page starts before deleting them.
Benefits

Why people use it

Clean plain text

Get readable text without fighting copy-and-paste.

Honest results

Pages without a text layer are flagged instead of filled with guesses.

Quick reuse

Copy or download the text for notes, emails or other tools.

Private

Text is extracted in your browser and never uploaded.

FAQ

Common questions

PDFs that contain selectable text, such as documents exported from Word, Google Docs or a web browser. If you can highlight the text in a PDF viewer, it can be extracted here.
Scanned pages are pictures of text and contain no selectable text. This tool does not include OCR (optical character recognition), so it tells you which pages have no extractable text instead of guessing.
The reading order and line breaks are kept as closely as the PDF allows, and each page starts with a marker like --- Page 1 ---. Tables and columns become plain text.
Yes. The output box is editable, and Copy text and Download .txt use whatever is in the box.
The number of pages, the characters and words extracted, and how many pages contained text.
PDFs that need a password to open cannot be read. PDFs that open without a password but restrict editing can usually be extracted.
No. Text is extracted in your browser with pdf.js; nothing is sent to a server.

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Private by design

This runs entirely in your browser

No file or text you enter here is uploaded. Encoding and decoding happen on your device using native browser APIs — close the tab and nothing remains on a server.

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