PDF to Text
Pull the plain text out of a PDF — right in your browser. This reads the text layer already stored in the file (it is not OCR), so a scanned or image-only PDF will come back empty. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop a PDF here, or click to choose
PDF — 100% private, nothing leaves your device
This extracts the text already embedded in the PDF — it is not OCR. Scanned or image-only PDFs have no text layer and will come out empty.
Extracted text
Everything runs in your browser. No upload, no sign-up.
How it works
STEP 1
Add your PDF
Drop your PDF here, or click to choose. It stays on your device.
STEP 2
Extract the text
We read the text layer page by page, with a marker between pages.
STEP 3
Copy or download
Copy the text or save it as a .txt file. Nothing is uploaded.